[wx-dev] RFD: Debian packages for wx 3.0

[Robin Dunn]

Vadim Zeitlin wrote:
> On Sat, 14 Jun 2008 00:06:26 +0200 Devid Antonio Filoni <devidfil at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> DAF> Hi to all
> DAF> >  It's true that usually foo-dbg depends on foo but in this case this would
> DAF> > seem to be undesirable... Does anybody (Devid?) know if there is any Debian
> DAF> > rule/convention concerning this?
> DAF> If foo-dbg doesn't depend on foo, lintian will show a lintian warning
> DAF> like this:
> 
>  Thanks for the information!
> 
> DAF> I prefer to have a lintian clean package (lintian checks a package to
> DAF> control if it respect Debian Policy or not), so I think that foo-dbg
> DAF> must depend on foo package.
> 
>  Yes, I definitely agree that new packages should be clean.
> 
> 
>  Well, so apparently the choice is between
> 
> (a') Single libwx package and single libwx-dbg package
> (b') Two libwxbase and libwxgtk packages and two libwx{base,gtk}-dbg ones
> (b'') Two libwxbase and libwxgtk packages but single libwx-dbg one
> (c') Many libwxfoo packages and many libwxfoo-dbg ones
> 
>  AFAICS both Robin and you prefer (b') or (b'') and among those 2 I think
> (b') is preferable. (c') seems less attractive now but I'd still would
> support having multiple packages personally. However I think that you know
> Debian[*] conventions better than me/us and besides you're going to do the
> work so it should be your decision.

This might work:

(c'') Have many libwxfoo packages, and a libwx that is a virtual package 
that depends on all the libwxfoo packages, and a single libwx-dbg that 
depends on the virtual libwx package.


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Robin Dunn
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