Bug#757140: apr-util: please drop unneeded dependencies in libaprutil1-dev
Package: apr-util
Version: 1.5.3-2
libaprutil1-dev contains dependencies on four other -dev packages which
do not appear to actually be needed when building against libaprutil:
libpcre3-dev
libsqlite3-dev
libpq-dev
libmysqlclient-dev
These appear to stem from a need to have .la files provided by those
packages, which were previously referred to by the dependency_libs in
libaprutil1.la. Now that the dependency_libs is empty (per Policy 10.2
and #619179), the corresponding -dev package dependencies are no longer
needed, and serve only to force the installation of unnecessary
development packages. In particular, this dependency, combined with an
actual dependency in libpq-dev, means that it is impossible to have
libaprutil1-dev and heimdal-dev installed at the same time.
-- Jeffrey T. Hutzelman (N3NHS) <jhutz+@cmu.edu>
Sr. Research Systems Programmer
School of Computer Science - Research Computing Facility
Carnegie Mellon University - Pittsburgh, PA
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