[Development] Any history on why "qtmultimedia5-private-dev" was removed.

[Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer]

Hi again!

On Mon, 2 Dec 2019 at 16:41, Paul Knopf <pauldotknopf at gmail.com> wrote:
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> I'm not arguing with that logic.
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> What that said, what is the Debian policy with regard to what dev packages should be added/removed to the official distro?
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> From what I'm hearing, I gather it's something like "Debian supports end-user commands/services/applications and the support libraries needed to run them, as well as the dev packages needed to that end."

This is off topic here, but: we strongly support stable API/ABI.
Libraries not shipping stable API/ABI are mostly up to the maintainer.
In this case we ship the minimum necessary parts of private headers.

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