Package: iproute2
Version: 4.3.0-1ubuntu3.16.04.2
Severity: wishlist
Tags: patch
ip link tool has an ability to use external shared libraries for
defining custom device kinds which will be managed by the tool.
To build such libraries three header files are needed. It would
be great to provide this headers in a dev package.
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From: Evgenii Smirnov <evgenii.smir...@profitbricks.com>
Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2017 19:01:44 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Add iproute2-dev package
The package provides necessary header files for building
extention static libraries for ip link tool. Libraries allow
user to define his own device kinds that will be managed by ip link.
Signed-off-by: Evgenii Smirnov <evgenii.smir...@profitbricks.com>
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debian/control | 11 +++++++++++
debian/iproute2-dev.install | 3 +++
2 files changed, 14 insertions(+)
create mode 100644 debian/iproute2-dev.install
diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index b98fbe8..2a13005 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -43,6 +43,17 @@ Description: networking and traffic control tools
interface, providing advanced features not available through the
legacy net-tools commands 'ifconfig' and 'route'.
+Package: iproute2-dev
+Section: libdevel
+Architecture: any
+Depends: ${misc:Depends}
+Description: networking and traffic control tools - development files
+ The iproute suite, also known as iproute2, is a collection of
+ utilities for networking and traffic control.
+ .
+ This package contains the header files for
+ compiling iproute link kind extensions, and is needed only for
development.
+
Package: iproute2-doc
Section: doc
Architecture: all
diff --git a/debian/iproute2-dev.install b/debian/iproute2-dev.install
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..00ba756
--- /dev/null
+++ b/debian/iproute2-dev.install
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+include/libnetlink.h /usr/include
+include/utils.h /usr/include
+ip/ip_common.h /usr/include
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