> In this case, the only way this bug would be 'important' would be if
> most people only use libpcre3-dev for compiling someone else's
> software, rather than for writing and developing their own. If you're
> writing your own software that uses pcre, obviously you'll know better
> than to rely on pkg-config to find every last library in the world.
> Even if you know that pcre is supposed to support pkg-config, it won't
> faze you much when Debian's happens not to.
You can debate whether this issue is a wishlist or important, but IMO
there's not been a good explanation of _why_ Debian shouldn't ship with
the pc file that the pcre developers, and the other distros, use.
libpcre.pc really just says "-L${libdir} -lpcre", so the unnecessary
dependencies problem of #340904 is a nonissue here.
My program (Pan) configures fine on SuSE, Fedora/RH, Mandriva, etc...
but bug reports like http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=338681
are showing up because of this.
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