[pkg-lighttpd] lighttpd-dev package?

[Arno Töll]

Hi,

On 03.08.2012 16:37, Anthony L. Awtrey wrote:
> I saw that in the bug report as well. I am a little unclear how
> software packaging details are a concern for the upstream developer.

well, upstream would need to provide a set of headers, libraries and
tools which are explicitly meant to develop. This isn't the case for
Lighttpd. We only could pick some random headers and maybe the skeleton
example and package it as -dev packages. These may, or may not be stable
APIs and headers - we can't know.

> If the opinion of the upstream devs really matter on packaging issues,
> shouldn't Debian still be distributing giant bundled KDE packages
> instead of breaking them out into modular application, library and
> development packages?

KDE, or Apache, do provide such APIs and Header collections which are
explicitly meant for software development.


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with kind regards,
Arno Töll
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