Re: Top 20 unnecessary dependencies
On Fri, Sep 29, 2006 at 02:48:06PM +0200, Tollef Fog Heen wrote:
> | Am Donnerstag 28 September 2006 21:14 schrieb Kurt Roeckx:
> | > Note that Requires.private is used for cflags since the last version
> | > of pkg-config.
> | Interesting but maybe documenting Requires.private would be a good idea?
> | Hint: the manpage only mentions Libs.private, see #341977 #346602.
> | And 9 months is quite some time :-/
> Yes, I'm a slacker. Sorry.
> | How shall I convince upstream to do it right if pkg-config upstream does not
> | document it? Fixing it only in Debian does not quite convince upstream...
> As I'm upstream too, fixing it in both places at once is what I'd do.
> (Or rather, I'd release a new upstream version and upload that to
> Debian immediately. Except for the freeze, that is.)
A targetted fix for this issue would surely be allowed in the freeze, so
that people can use etch as a base for cleaning up .pc files.
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