librrd0-dev missing from Ubuntu - intention or accident?

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Sat, Oct 09, 2004 at 09:49:41PM -0500, Martin Maney wrote:

> Somehow all these years I'd never really noticed how very very easy it
> is to fetch and build missing packages - perhaps because the things
> I've needed to build were either backports or not packaged for Debian
> at all.  Anyway, I wanted lm-sensors (itself a candidate for inclusion
> in Hoary, I would think), and it ran me into the lack of librrd0-dev. 
> I know Ubuntu is aimed at users who don't generally *need* development
> tools, but surely it isn't actually policy to omit -dev versions of
> libraries that are in the distro?  I've not run into a case like this
> up until now (lm-sensors build-deps on librrd0-dev, but only librrd0 is
> in warty).

It was left in universe unintentionally; I've added it to the supported seed
list, and it will make its way into main with the next resync.

Our intention is that the -dev packages for all libraries we support should
be supported as well, but for the moment they must each be specified
individually.

If someone would run a quick check for -dev packages which should be in
main, but are not, I would gladly take care of them.

-- 
 - mdz