Morten Kjeldgaard (mok0) wrote: > I sponsored your lighttpd patch into karmic. IMHO it is definitely a > packaging error not to include a -dev package.
This is certainly not true for most programs, so you should have provided some reasons why a -dev package is missing for lighttpd. So here is why this is wrong: If another package uses this -dev package to link a 3rd party module, it will never get the correct dependencies. Even a small lighttpd update might break the binary API, and there will be no so bump nor package rename as there is no library package. Right now 3rd party modules should be patched into the upstream sources to compile them, and distributed as one "package". (Splitting is fine as long as you have strict dependencies) I think providing a -dev package is possible, you probably need to: * link the core as a library, to link plugins against * put this library into a library package * review changes whether they break the api and do so bumps accordingly Imho this is not worth the effort, and I don't think anyone will maintain such solution. Also upstream won't support it. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/326899 Title: provide lighttpd-dev package To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/lighttpd/+bug/326899/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
