Package: lintian
Severity: wishlist
Maintainers typically write the "Depends" header for a dev package
manually, unlike with shared libraries that are added to Depends using
the variable expansion ${shlibs:Depends}
E.g.
Package: libfoo-dev
Depends: libbar-dev, libboost-dev
It is quite possible that the maintainer has some dev packages listed in
Build-Depends that should also be in the Depends header of the binary
-dev package
It would be useful for lintian to scan the headers in a dev package and
see if they try to include any other headers that are not provided
(transitively) by Depends
Failure to locate all required headers could be an error
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