[pkg-go] Usage of Built-Using for dev packages

[Michael Stapelberg]

That’s a fair point as well. Do you want to file a bug against the
package in question?

On Fri, Sep 11, 2015 at 9:11 PM, Paul Tagliamonte <paultag at debian.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 11, 2015 at 03:07:36PM -0400, Alexandre Viau wrote:
>> About that, should -dev packages contain binaries? Would it be best that
>> dev packages stay arch:all and ship their binaries in a separated package?
>
> I tend to say "yes" - the -dev files aren't arch dependent, and shipping
> the binary like that prevents it from being multiarch'd approprately,
> which is a massive pain for anyone using it for 32 and 64 bit build on
> the same host. Which is nearly no one, sure, but the point stands.
>
> I'd be for shipping a binary seprately, like -tools or -bin for C
> libraries.
>
> Cheers,
>   Paul



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Best regards,
Michael