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regarding libgpgmepp-dev: Should libgpgmepp-dev dependencies match pkg-config
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Package: libgpgmepp-dev
Version: 1.24.2-3
Severity: important
Dear Maintainer,
I had a concern about the libgpgmepp-dev package's declared
dependencies. Specifically, I was developing a project where I needed
libgpgmepp, and thus wanted to pull in the necessary development headers
and library by installing libgpgmepp-dev. Critically, however, prior to
this, I had not yet installed packages for libgpgme or libgpg-error.
It seems like the libgpgmepp-dev package currently depends on both
libgpgmepp6t64 and libgpg-error-dev, thus also pulling in development
headers for libgpg-error. However, it would also appear that aside from
libgpg-error, the
[pkg-config](https://github.com/gpg/gpgmepp/blob/6a99d7eef09aedd768356792f38aca2cc03659da/src/gpgmepp.pc.in#L8)
file for libgpgmepp has also always explicitly required the pkg-config
file for **libgpgme** to exist, which makes sense as libgpgmepp is a C++
wrapper on top of this library.
I am not sure if the ommittance of libgpgme-dev from libgpgmepp-dev's
dependencies is intentional, but I would have personally assumed that
installing libgpgmepp-dev would pull in all libraries and dependencies
necessary to develop with libgpgmepp, and especially since libgpgmepp's
dependency on libgpgme development files is a foundational aspect of the
library's very purpose, I was wondering if libgpgme-dev should also have
been added as a dependency to libgpgmepp-dev.
Please feel free to let me know what you think about this. It is very
plausible that this is not actually a bug, and that my understanding of
-dev packages in general is slightly flawed, but regardless, I would
certainly greatly appreciate it if you could help point me in the right
direction! :)
Thank you so much for your time and help.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: trixie/sid
APT prefers stable
APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 6.12.12-amd64 (SMP w/16 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled
Versions of packages libgpgmepp-dev depends on:
ii libgpg-error-dev 1.51-3
ii libgpgmepp6t64 1.24.2-3
Versions of packages libgpgmepp-dev recommends:
ii libgpgmepp-doc 1.24.2-3
libgpgmepp-dev suggests no packages.
-- no debconf information
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--- Begin Message ---
Version: 2.0.0-3
On 2026-07-31 Kangjia Huang <[email protected]> wrote:
> Package: libgpgmepp-dev
> Version: 1.24.2-3
> Severity: important
> Dear Maintainer,
> I had a concern about the libgpgmepp-dev package's declared
> dependencies. Specifically, I was developing a project where I needed
> libgpgmepp, and thus wanted to pull in the necessary development headers
> and library by installing libgpgmepp-dev. Critically, however, prior to
> this, I had not yet installed packages for libgpgme or libgpg-error.
> It seems like the libgpgmepp-dev package currently depends on both
> libgpgmepp6t64 and libgpg-error-dev, thus also pulling in development
> headers for libgpg-error. However, it would also appear that aside from
> libgpg-error, the
> [pkg-config](https://github.com/gpg/gpgmepp/blob/6a99d7eef09aedd768356792f38aca2cc03659da/src/gpgmepp.pc.in#L8)
> file for libgpgmepp has also always explicitly required the pkg-config
> file for **libgpgme** to exist, which makes sense as libgpgmepp is a C++
> wrapper on top of this library.
> I am not sure if the ommittance of libgpgme-dev from libgpgmepp-dev's
> dependencies is intentional,
[...]
This was fixed in Version 2.0.0-3
gpgmepp (2.0.0-3) unstable; urgency=medium
* Team upload
[ Alessandro Astone ]
* d/control: libgpgmepp-dev depends on libgpgme-dev
[ Jeremy Bícha ]
* Update Standards Version to 4.7.4
-- Jeremy Bícha <[email protected]> Thu, 30 Apr 2026 16:10:44 -0400
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