Hello, On Sun, 22 May 2011, Gerold Jens Wucherpfennig wrote: > For example package "libc6" will have set: > > "Development-Package: libc6-dev" > > So the package manager can examine all installed packages and > will collect the data of the field: "Development-Package" > > Then the package manager may ask the user if he wants to > install all these packages in one turn ... > > ... quite useful for all software > developers and from-source-installing geeks :-)
I don't think this field is needed. First the "-dev" extension is standardized and it's easy to guess the good package name. Then if you want to program something that finds out the -dev for a library, it's also relatively simple: - find the source package of the library - scan the list of binary package built by this source package - filter out the "-dev" one - if there's more than one -dev, you can try to select the one that depends on the library that you're interested in (or the one that matches the pattern "libfoo\d*-dev" (if libfooX is your library). Adding a new field would mean manual work that's not needed because we have more than enough info to identify the development packages. Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog ◈ Debian Developer Follow my Debian News ▶ http://RaphaelHertzog.com (English) ▶ http://RaphaelHertzog.fr (Français) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
