[Pkg-samba-maint] Bug#571635: Bug#571635: samba: Should provide headers for libraries development.

[Steve Langasek]

On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 08:10:43PM +0300, Al Nikolov wrote:
> On Saturday 27 February 2010 20:06:42 Steve Langasek wrote:
> > (Moreover, the proposed patch is wrong, /usr/src is not where the FHS says
> > these should be installed.)

> Do you really think linux-headers-* packages break the FHS? Actually i'd like 
> to install them to /usr/include/samba, but there is one essential Makefile 
> between them.

The linux-headers packages are something of a special case in that your build
environment will always need to configure the include path according to which
version of the kernel you're building for.  This is not a consideration with
samba, and I don't think a hypothetical samba-headers package should be
treated differently than any other header package for a plugin API.

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