I'm not familiar with actual Debian policy or idioms and I don't have a
personal preference either way.
But, I know one sample point which are the boost libraries. Most of
boost is header-only. That all comes in libboost-dev. Any library in
boost that requires a built library is then separated into a runtime
package and a dev package, and its headers are not in libboost-dev.
-Evan
Roberto C. Sánchez wrote:
The submitter of #515215 is requesting that the sparsehash binary
package be renamed to libsparsehash-dev. However, the package only
contains header files and documentation. It is not a development
library in the traditional sense. My thinking is that the package name
should not be changed. I am preparing a new upstream release right now
for upload, so this would be a good time to make the change if people
think it is necessary/desirable.
Regards,
-Roberto
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