opendds-dev depends on openddsBROKEN?

[tranzmatt]

I'm looking at your debian/control file and "opendds-dev" says it depends on "openddsBROKEN". Is there a particular reason for that?

[iguessthislldo]

When I saw you forked this repo I wished I could have told you 1: This was my first attempt ever at a debian package and 2. I left it in a completely unfinished state. It just creates an empty package for some reason.

Anyway back to your question: I think I remember reading that I could set the dependency to a non existent package to keep it from being created (?). I'm hazy on that part, but I know my goal was to get everything into the opendds package first so I knew I could create a package successfully, then to separate out the opendds development tools such as opendds_idl into opendds-dev.

[tranzmatt]

I've tweaked them before, but not from scratch. It'd be useful to me to be able to create .deb packages so I'll see if I can get it to work.

[iguessthislldo]

I took a look at the what this did and it appears to install to debian/tmp, but doesn't seem to be copied to the final package(s). After a little googling I found this. It makes sense I would have to specify what files I want in each package if I have multiple packages. Anyway I commented out opendds-dev and that worked. So I'm fine with this for now until I can create .install files but what kind of use case are you looking at? Do you need seperate library and development packages?