> Package: lintian > Severity: wishlist > > There are many -dev packages which do not declare dependency on > necessary -dev packages. > > It might be nice to issue warnings on lib*-dev packages which > have Depends: line with no lib*-dev dependencies against > those which are in Build-Depends.
Thinking about this for a bit, I don't think this is something that would ever be useful to do, unfortunately. This approach would make the assumption that any lib*-dev package required to build a package containing a library should also be a dependency of the development version of the library. Putting aside whether it's worth keeping such a dependency only for static linking when the one library completely hides the usage of the other, this fails for large packages that produce multiple binary packages. Consider a package that builds a library that depends on nothing but libc and a separate binary package of executables that depend on both it and, say, LDAP libraries. The LDAP -dev package will be in Build-Depends, but the library -dev package should not depend on it. Since Build-Depends is for the whole source package, not broken out by resulting binary package, I think this idea is unfortunately unworkable. If other lintian developers agree, I think this bug should probably just be closed. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
