static libraries/devel subpackages

Ville Skyttä ville.skytta at iki.fi
Mon Aug 22 15:36:56 UTC 2005


On Mon, 2005-08-22 at 16:49 +0200, Linus Walleij wrote:
> On Mon, 22 Aug 2005, Patrice Dumas wrote:
>
> > * when the package consists only in static libraries, no binaries nor dynamic
> >  libraries what should be done? (I think that the principal package should
> >  not distribute any file such that there is only a -devel package. It is
> >  what libcaca does.)
> 
> Seems reasonable to me...

Ditto.

> Could one not just name the main package 
> "foo-devel" then, with no "main" package whatsoever?

Just leave it at "foo", that'll result in less mess when upstream one
day introduces stuff that doesn't belong in the -devel package.




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