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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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