tags 475031 + patch
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Hi folks,
This is a followup on Debian #475031: pkg-config: New behaviour of
Requires.private breaks existing packages.
On Tue, Apr 08, 2008, Michael Biebl wrote:
> it seems as if the handling of Requires.private has changed.
> pkg-config --atleast-version=2.19 deskbar-applet
I agree this is unfortunate; pkg-config can extract most of the
information from .pc files without parsing down all Requires.private
fields all the time.
The original thread which hinted me at this bug was about Debian
#504220: missing dependencies in libavcodec-dev, libavformat-dev which
use Requires.private but don't depend on the packages providing the
relevant modules.
This is always incorrect and these packages -- including
deskbar-applet -- need to be fixed to allow reverse build-deps to query
useful data such as Cflags. I don't know why deskbar-applet Requires
pygtk.
That said, pkg-config could work in many more cases and is very picky
about Requires.private (and Requires!) even when these aren't needed.
I've prepared a stack of patches to extend the testsuite for these
cases and to handle them properly. It's in the
misc-requires-private-fixes branch of this git repository:
git.debian.org:/git/users/lool/pkg-config
(but I guess I could provide it under a different format)
Cheers,
PS: control Bcc:ed
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Loïc Minier
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