Verified this still happens on a fresh utopic installation. Install mir- demos and you get lots of *-dev packages too.
** Summary changed: - Installing mir-demos also installs *-dev packages + Installing mir-demos also unexpectedly installs *-dev packages -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to mir in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1297100 Title: Installing mir-demos also unexpectedly installs *-dev packages Status in Mir: Triaged Status in “mir” package in Ubuntu: Triaged Bug description: Installing mir-demos also installs *-dev packages. I'm not sure what's going on here, but I do know that mir-demos is meant to only contain demo binaries and somehow that is depending on *-dev packages, which looks wrong: # Starting on a freshly installed trusty system $ sudo apt-get install mir-demos [sudo] password for dan: Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following extra packages will be installed: libboost-program-options-dev libboost-program-options1.54-dev libboost-program-options1.54.0 libboost1.54-dev libgflags2 libglm-dev libgoogle-glog0 libmirclient-dev libmirclient7 libmirclientplatform-mesa libmirplatform libmirplatformgraphics-mesa libmirprotobuf-dev libmirprotobuf0 libmirserver-dev libmirserver17 libprotobuf-dev libprotobuf-lite8 libstdc++-4.8-dev libunwind8 mir-doc mircommon-dev zlib1g-dev Suggested packages: libboost1.54-doc libboost-atomic1.54-dev libboost-chrono1.54-dev libboost-context1.54-dev libboost-coroutine.54-dev libboost-date-time1.54-dev libboost-exception1.54-dev libboost-filesystem1.54-dev libboost-graph1.54-dev libboost-graph-parallel1.54-dev libboost-iostreams1.54-dev libboost-locale1.54-dev libboost-log.54-dev libboost-math1.54-dev libboost-mpi1.54-dev libboost-mpi-python1.54-dev libboost-python1.54-dev libboost-random1.54-dev libboost-regex1.54-dev libboost-serialization1.54-dev libboost-signals1.54-dev libboost-system1.54-dev libboost-test1.54-dev libboost-thread1.54-dev libboost-timer1.54-dev libboost-wave1.54-dev libboost1.54-tools-dev libmpfrc++-dev libntl-dev libstdc++-4.8-doc The following NEW packages will be installed: libboost-program-options-dev libboost-program-options1.54-dev libboost-program-options1.54.0 libboost1.54-dev libgflags2 libglm-dev libgoogle-glog0 libmirclient-dev libmirclient7 libmirclientplatform-mesa libmirplatform libmirplatformgraphics-mesa libmirprotobuf-dev libmirprotobuf0 libmirserver-dev libmirserver17 libprotobuf-dev libprotobuf-lite8 libstdc++-4.8-dev libunwind8 mir-demos mir-doc mircommon-dev zlib1g-dev 0 to upgrade, 24 to newly install, 0 to remove and 0 not to upgrade. Need to get 59.1 MB of archives. After this operation, 221 MB of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/mir/+bug/1297100/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
