On 14/12/2021 22:02, Mike Rochefort wrote:
On Tue, Dec 14, 2021 at 3:55 PM IBBoard centosdevel@ibboard.co.uk wrote:
Is this normal? Does anyone know why there would be binary/library packages but not devel packages published?
The shipping of devel packages can alter a package's ABI support guidance[0].
Ah, so standard RHEL/CentOS practice is to provide libraries for internal dependencies without supporting building against them? I hadn't realised. I'm used to every package in a distro having a devel.
It used to be there, so I don't know what changed. Maybe the move from CentOS8 to Streams?
I might request the devel package, but given that I'm just building a small Twitter app with a low CentOS-based audience then it seems like quite a large commitment to put on CentOS to support building against the library.