package request/update: boost-*-dev
Boost is made up of modules: If I only need the shared library for boost::filesystem, I can install boost-filesystem only instead of the boost package.
There currently is no analogue for headers and thus dev packages: If I need the headers from boost::filesystem, I’ll have to install boost-dev and thus a lot of packages (things such as boost-python, thus python, etc.).
It would be nice if boost-dev was just like boost just an umbrella for the dev packages corresponding to each module, allowing users to install e.g. only boost-filesystem-dev.
(from redmine: issue id 5558, created on 2016-05-12)