Bug#841309: library package depends on -dev packages

Michael Biebl biebl at debian.org
Wed Oct 19 16:04:19 UTC 2016


Thanks for quick response, Sylvestre.

Am 19.10.2016 um 16:59 schrieb Sylvestre Ledru:
> 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.

Nod, moving the dependencies to the clang sounds reasonable given your
explanation above.

Regards,
Michael

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