Source: googletest Version: 1.10.0-3 googletest is weirdly special in that it is supposed to be compiled together with the project that is being tested, using the same flags. As such it ships with source files and not just a shared library that can be imported using pkg-config. Right now it supports cmake as-is.
Meson is a (new?) build system that is gaining in popularity. Right now what a meson-using upstream project can do to manage its dependencies tightly is to use so-called "wraps" that patch meson.build build system definitions from the internet on top of an arbitrary upstream source that does not support meson yet. So for gtest there is [1], which ships a zip for 1.10.0 at [2] that contains three meson.build files and one LICENSE.build. Would it be possible for googletest in Debian to ship these meson.build files alongside the source in the library packages? That way packages could build-depend on libgtest-dev without requiring them to use CMake. Kind regards and thanks Philipp Kern [1] https://wrapdb.mesonbuild.com/gtest [2] https://wrapdb.mesonbuild.com/v1/projects/gtest/1.10.0/1/get_wrap
