* Russ Allbery r...@debian.org [110823 22:49]:
I agree with your line of reasoning, but I'd rather be explicit about such
things rather than relying on everyone separately coming to the same
conclusion.
I think one has to be careful about what special cases to describe, as
every special case
Bernhard R. Link brl...@debian.org writes:
Should we then also list -data packages not usually depending on the
non-data package and not the other way around.
-data packages *should* depend on the non-data package in an ideal world,
and the only reason why they don't is because circular
* Russ Allbery r...@debian.org [110824 19:34]:
Should we then also list -data packages not usually depending on the
non-data package and not the other way around.
-data packages *should* depend on the non-data package in an ideal world,
and the only reason why they don't is because circular
Bernhard R. Link brl...@debian.org writes:
* Russ Allbery r...@debian.org [110824 19:34]:
-data packages *should* depend on the non-data package in an ideal
world, and the only reason why they don't is because circular
dependencies are a bigger problem. But -data packages are generally
On 2011-08-22, Russ Allbery r...@debian.org wrote:
Bernhard R. Link brl...@debian.org writes:
* Russ Allbery r...@debian.org [110822 19:59]:
That's a fascinating point. I have never done that with any -dev
package, since essentially every -dev package would require that, which
seems rather
* Russ Allbery r...@debian.org [110822 21:47]:
There are not, so far as I know, any exceptions for -dev packages from the
normal requirements for Depends, which say simply:
The Depends field should be used if the depended-on package is
required for the depending package to provide a
On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 11:57:37AM +0200, Bernhard R. Link wrote:
* Russ Allbery r...@debian.org [110822 21:47]:
and given that C -dev packages are unusable in general without libc6-dev
installed, that would, on the surface, seem to qualify.
If you compile a program, you will usually need
Sune Vuorela nos...@vuorela.dk writes:
On 2011-08-22, Russ Allbery r...@debian.org wrote:
There are not, so far as I know, any exceptions for -dev packages from the
normal requirements for Depends, which say simply:
The Depends field should be used if the depended-on package is
Bernhard R. Link brl...@debian.org writes:
I think this is the old general discussion what useful is. A pdf
viewer is not useful without a pdf file to view, still a pdf viewer
should of course not depend on some package with pdf files in it.
I think some good heuristic is usually looking at
Hi!
Paul Elliott pelli...@blackpatchpanel.com writes:
I quote from Debian Library Packaging guide
2. -DEV package dependencies
The -DEV package would usually declare Depends: relationship on all -DEV
packages for libraries that the library package directly depends upon,
with the specific
On 2011-08-22 11:54 +0200, Christoph Egger wrote:
Paul Elliott pelli...@blackpatchpanel.com writes:
Does this mean that if my library has an include reference
#include stdio.h
in one of its .c or .h files, then my -dev package must have a depends line
like this in its debian/control file:
A number of responses to my question seem to be confusing
Debian Policy 4.2 which refers to Build-depends: that is packages
necessary to build the package and the Debian Library Packaging guide
section 6.2 which refers to the Depends: dependancies of the -dev packages
that is the packages that
Paul Elliott pelli...@blackpatchpanel.com writes:
I quote from Debian Library Packaging guide
2. -DEV package dependencies
The -DEV package would usually declare Depends: relationship on all -DEV
packages for libraries that the library package directly depends upon,
with the specific
* Russ Allbery r...@debian.org [110822 19:59]:
Paul Elliott pelli...@blackpatchpanel.com writes:
That's a fascinating point. I have never done that with any -dev package,
since essentially every -dev package would require that, which seems
rather silly. (There are almost no non-trivial C
Bernhard R. Link brl...@debian.org writes:
* Russ Allbery r...@debian.org [110822 19:59]:
That's a fascinating point. I have never done that with any -dev
package, since essentially every -dev package would require that, which
seems rather silly. (There are almost no non-trivial C libraries
I quote from Debian Library Packaging guide
2. -DEV package dependencies
The -DEV package would usually declare Depends: relationship on all -DEV
packages for libraries that the library package directly depends upon,
with the specific SONAME version that the library package is linked
Hi,
On Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 12:59 AM, Paul Elliott
pelli...@blackpatchpanel.com wrote:
I quote from Debian Library Packaging guide
2. -DEV package dependencies
The -DEV package would usually declare Depends: relationship on all -DEV
packages for libraries that the library package directly
On Sunday, August 21, 2011 11:06:35 PM Fernando Lemos wrote:
Hi,
On Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 12:59 AM, Paul Elliott
pelli...@blackpatchpanel.com wrote:
I quote from Debian Library Packaging guide
2. -DEV package dependencies
The -DEV package would usually declare Depends:
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