Debian Bug report logs - #880922
lintian: Check for -dev -> runtime library package dependencies

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Message #5 received at [email protected] (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Christoph Biedl <[email protected]>

To: Debian Bug Tracking System <[email protected]>

Subject: lintian: Check for dependency -dev -> runtime library package

Date: Sun, 5 Nov 2017 18:55:32 +0100

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Package: lintian
Version: 2.5.58
Severity: wishlist

Dear Maintainer,

Policy 8.5 recommends ("should") for a -dev package to have an install
dependency on the respective runtime library. It seems lintian does not
check for this but I think it should.

Hopefully, implementation would not that difficult: In debian/control,
identify <slug>-dev packages, in the libdevel section, and if there's a
related <slug><soname> package in the lib section, the -dev package
should have a strict versioned dependency on the runtime library. The
latter is actually already covered by "weak-library-dev-dependency".

Regards,

    Christoph

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Message #12 received at [email protected] (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Chris Lamb <[email protected]>

To: [email protected]

Cc: Christoph Biedl <[email protected]>

Subject: Re: lintian: Check for -dev -> runtime library package dependencies

Date: Sat, 05 May 2018 17:39:23 +0100

tags 880922 + moreinfo
thanks

Hi Christoph,

> Hopefully, implementation would not that difficult: In debian/control,
> identify <slug>-dev packages, in the libdevel section, and if there's a
> related <slug><soname> package in the lib section, the -dev package
> should have a strict versioned dependency on the runtime library. The
> latter is actually already covered by "weak-library-dev-dependency".

Thanks for the report. I was wondering if you could quickly provide
some example "bad" and "good" dependencies. This would 100% confirm
my understanding of what you are after, as well as be useful as
testcases within Lintian.

A very quick draft for a tag description (which I am happy to rework
later) would also be highly appreciated. :)


Best wishes,

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