How and why to create -dbg, -dev, -doc packages?
- by Nico
I'm writing an Ubuntu package for a package which essentially provides a number of libraries and headers which then be used to build other software. The package also breaks up in smaller subpackages which are interdependent; in this sense the package is quite similar to boost.
I noticed that packages like boost provide
[...]
libboost-dbg
libboost-dev
libboost-doc
[...]
libboost-all-dev
[...]
but nothing that goes by the name boost or libboost.
What is the idea behind this?
What are the purposes of the -dbg, -dev, and -doc packages?
Are there any instructions provided on how to write build files for those packages?