How and why to create -dbg, -dev, -doc packages?

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Published on 2012-08-31T18:20:46Z Indexed on 2012/08/31 21:49 UTC
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I'm writing an Ubuntu package for a package which essentially provides a number of libraries and headers which then be used to build other software. The package also breaks up in smaller subpackages which are interdependent; in this sense the package is quite similar to boost.

I noticed that packages like boost provide

[...]
libboost-dbg
libboost-dev
libboost-doc
[...]
libboost-all-dev
[...]

but nothing that goes by the name boost or libboost.

What is the idea behind this?
What are the purposes of the -dbg, -dev, and -doc packages?
Are there any instructions provided on how to write build files for those packages?

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