On Tue, 10 Nov 2020 at 20:29, Paul Wise <p...@debian.org> wrote: > On Mon, Nov 9, 2020 at 10:37 PM Joerg Jaspert wrote: > > > More and more packages are being uploaded into the Debian archive which > > are only ever used for building packages. These are not only never > > intended to be installed onto an end-user's system, they are even > > actively discouraged from being used directly by a user. The two > > currently most notable examples are packages used by the Go and Rust > > programming languages and their ecosystem, but there well may be > > others[1]. > > Does this include the -dev packages for C/etc libraries? >
No, those are useful for people writing C programs outside of packaging. > I guess it also applies to Haskell and other statically-linked languages. > > https://wiki.debian.org/StaticLinking It's not the static linking that's the issue, it's that go (and rust I assume) packages do not install things on the default search path of the compiler. I don't know whether haskell does or not. The -dev packages for C libraries definitely do! > The current proposal is to reduce the main Packages.xz files size by > > splitting[4] out all of the packages that are not intended for users, > > writing those into an own file. Those packages would have a section of > > "buildlibs", independent of their other properties. > > Should (almost?) everything in the existing libdevel section move to > the new buildlibs section? > I don't think so. Cheers, mwh
