[maemo-developers] libqtm-dev dependency

[From: Attila Csipa]

On Friday 06 August 2010 01:19:55 Robin Burchell wrote:
> > Is there any reason why libqtm-dev doesn't deppend on libqtm-sensors?
>
> Why would it? libqtm-dev is a headers package for the whole of Qt Mobility
> for applications to build against, libqtm-sensors is a binary package of
> the mobility sensors framework.
>
> This is also consistent with how Qt itself is packaged pretty much
> everywhere: libqt4-dev vs libqt4-core, libqt4-gui, ...

Without having the qtm packages at hand, talking in general: the -dev package 
should depend on the actual lib (libqt4-dev actually does this as the OP 
says), as otherwise you wouldn't be able to link against it (just compile).


Regards,
Attila