Package: libip4tc-dev Version: 1.8.4-1 Severity: serious Hi,
for some background, see the related bug report https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=946149#10 libiptc.pc was moved from libiptc-dev to libip4tc-dev and libiptc-dev is now an empty dummy package (which is scheduled to be removed). I think this move was incorrect. The libiptc-dev package should remain and continue shipping libiptc.pc. The libiptc-dev package should continue to depend on libip4tc-dev and libip6tc-dev. I assume moving the header files from libiptc-dev to libip4tc-dev is find though. So, why should libiptc-dev remain? libiptc.pc contains: Requires: libip4tc libip6tc So, for libiptc.pc to be functional, libip4tc-dev and libip6tc-dev need to be installed. Making libip4tc-dev depend on libip6tc-dev doesn't really make sense. If you do that, you can just as well merge libip6tc-dev and libip4tc-dev into a single libiptc-dev package which contains all development files. We basically have two sensible options: 1/ Have a single libiptc-dev package which contains all development files 2/ Have a libip6tc-dev package which contains all development files related to libip6tc, have a libip4tc-dev package which contains all development files related to libip4tc and have libiptc-dev (convenience) package which contains libiptc.pc and depends on both libip6tc-dev and libip4tc-dev The current setup breaks packages which have a pkg-config check for libiptc, like systemd: Determining dependency 'libiptc' with pkg-config executable '/usr/bin/pkg-config' PKG_CONFIG_PATH: Called `/usr/bin/pkg-config --modversion libiptc` -> 0 1.8.4 PKG_CONFIG_PATH: Called `/usr/bin/pkg-config --cflags libiptc` -> 1 pkg-config error with 'libiptc': Could not generate cargs for libiptc: Package libip6tc was not found in the pkg-config search path. Perhaps you should add the directory containing `libip6tc.pc' to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable Package 'libip6tc', required by 'libiptc', not found Could not generate cargs for libiptc: Package libip6tc was not found in the pkg-config search path. Perhaps you should add the directory containing `libip6tc.pc' to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable Package 'libip6tc', required by 'libiptc', not found CMake binary for MachineChoice.HOST is not cached CMake binary missing from cross or native file, or env var undefined. Trying a default CMake fallback at cmake Trying CMake binary cmake for machine MachineChoice.HOST at ['/usr/bin/cmake'] Found CMake: /usr/bin/cmake (3.15.4) Extracting basic cmake information Try CMake generator: auto Called `/usr/bin/cmake --trace-expand .` in /home/michael/debian/build-area/systemd-244/build-deb/meson-private/cmake_libiptc -> 0 -- Module search paths: ['/', '/opt', '/usr', '/usr/local'] -- CMake root: /usr/share/cmake-3.15 -- CMake architectures: ['x86_64-linux-gnu'] -- CMake lib search paths: ['lib', 'lib32', 'lib64', 'libx32', 'share', 'lib/x86_64-linux-gnu'] Run-time dependency libiptc found: NO (tried cmake) meson.build:1036:8: ERROR: Could not generate cargs for libiptc: Package libip6tc was not found in the pkg-config search path. Perhaps you should add the directory containing `libip6tc.pc' to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable Package 'libip6tc', required by 'libiptc', not found -- System Information: Debian Release: bullseye/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (200, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 5.3.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Kernel taint flags: TAINT_WARN Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) LSM: AppArmor: enabled Versions of packages libip4tc-dev depends on: ii libip4tc2 1.8.4-1 ii libiptc0 1.8.4-1 libip4tc-dev recommends no packages. libip4tc-dev suggests no packages. -- no debconf information
