[Pkg-protobuf-devel] Bug#842158: protobuf-compiler: Considerer Recommend: libprotobuf-dev

[Ian Campbell]

Package: protobuf-compiler
Version: 3.0.0-7
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,

libprotobuf-dev contains several standard .proto files included in the upstream
protobuf source. I was recently working with a (golang) project which imported
google/protobuf/descriptor.proto and was surprised to find this wasn't
available out of the box after installing protobuf-compiler.

I think this is analogous to gcc-6 having a Recommend on libc6-dev.

Thanks,
Ian.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 4.7.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages protobuf-compiler depends on:
ii  libc6          2.24-3
ii  libgcc1        1:6.1.1-11
ii  libprotobuf10  3.0.0-7
ii  libprotoc10    3.0.0-7
ii  libstdc++6     6.1.1-11
ii  zlib1g         1:1.2.8.dfsg-2+b1

protobuf-compiler recommends no packages.

protobuf-compiler suggests no packages.

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