Bug#841309: library package depends on -dev packages
Sylvestre Ledru
sylvestre at debian.org
Wed Oct 19 14:59:08 UTC 2016
Le 19/10/2016 à 16:20, Michael Biebl a écrit :
> Package: libclang1-3.9
> Version: 1:3.9-2
> That's quite a lot and unexpected if you only want doxygen.
>
> I looked at the llvm-toolchain changelog, but didn't find a
> justification why the library package needs to depend on those -dev
> packages. Could those dependencies be dropped or moved to another
> package? It seems odd to have a library package pull in dev packages.
The rational was that, when you install clang, you want to be able to compile objective c out of the box.
However, maybe moving the dep to clang itself will fix that itself. I will have a look.
S
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