>>>>> "Phillip" == Phillip Susi <ps...@ubuntu.com> writes:
Phillip> On 2/18/2013 1:21 PM, Sam Hartman wrote:
>> 2) don't install a .so in a -dev package.
Phillip> That might be a signal a human can understand, but the
Phillip> build system won't catch it. The goal is to make sure the
Phillip> build system doesn't generate broken binary packages.
Uh, no. If you don't install a .so, then linking with -lfoo won't work.
Not having a dev package tends to make it hard enough to link for 90% of
the cases.
with the current packaging tools, you tend to end up producing the
.shlibs files in order to manage cross-package dependencies within a
single source package.
If it were relatively easy to convince the packaging tools to handle
dependencies within a source package and to omit including the shlibs
file in the binary, I'd buy that as a requirement too.
In general though I think including no headers and no .so for a library
makes a clear statement that build systems tend to respect:-)
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