On Sat, 2017-05-06 at 11:55 -0600, Adam Conrad wrote: > Package: gstreamer1.0-tools > Version: 1.11.91-1 > Severity: normal > > gstreamer1.0-tools contains three binaries, and I can't find a reference > in any of them to pkg-config. Despite that, the tools package depends on > pkg-config, which in turn pulls in dpkg-dev and build-essential (if you > use apt with recommends enabled by default). > > pkg-config pulling on a packaging toolchain doesn't seem unreasonable at > all, however gstreamer runtime libraries and tools doing so doesn't make > any sense at all. > > Please drop this dep entirely if it really is unnecessary (which it looks > like at a quick glance), or if there's a valid reason for it, do enlighten > us, and maybe we can figure out a way to make it not need to do so.
Thanks, I'll drop this on the next upload. It's a left-over from the gstreamer-tools (0.10) package, which via pkg-config was checking which GStreamer versions are available and then called the appropriate executable (gst-launch-0.8, -0.10, -1.0, etc).
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