Hi Lifeng, > This is a duplicate of bug #552226 [1], in which you could find a good > reason for not providing -dev package of Minuit2. > > [1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=552226
thanks for your answer. I see. We are in a somewhat similar situation as Frank in #552226 in the sense that we build an application which implements a function to be minimized [i] -- with the difference that our program that should eventually be packaged for debian also has other ROOT dependencies apart from Minuit2. It therefore makes sense for us to use Minuit2 provided by ROOT. Though, we do not want to go through TVirtualFitter and fiddle with configuration files but just use Minuit2 directly. [i] http://lmu.web.psi.ch/facilities/software/musrfit/technical/ I understand, that the existing "plugin" is enough to be able to distribute and run the program once the corresponding package has been created. Yet, for building the application package one is forced to have a separate Minuit2 "installation" (or at least the header files lying somewhere); it would definitely be more convenient to have a dev package than to provide manually the needed headers -- in which case one can as well stay clear of any packages and just have a complete manual ROOT installation. Kind regards, Bastian
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