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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