devel packages with only one .pc file

[Alexander Larsson]

On Wed, 2006-09-06 at 07:18 -0500, Rex Dieter wrote:
> Jesse Keating wrote:
> > On Wednesday 06 September 2006 05:07, Alexander Larsson wrote:
> >> The bug above proposes to further split out this .pc file into a
> >> separate subpackage. However, the gapi package itself will never be
> >> installed on a user system, and no developer needing it would ever not
> >> want the .pc files. So, what use is splitting out this .pc file?
> > 
> > This bug may be a misunderstanding of what the package actually does.  Given 
> > that gapi is already a "-devel" type package, I think its acceptable to keep 
> > the pc file there. 
> 
> OTOH, it could be argued that since it is already -devel type package, 
> (with apparently no runtime/non-devel bits), then it's *name* should 
> reflect that.

You mean we should call things gcc-devel, gdb-devel, valgrind-devel,
memprof-devel, nasm-devel, etc?

Sounds pretty silly to me.

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