On Sat, Apr 05, 2008 at 12:38:34AM +0200, Simon Richter wrote: > Hi, > > > Consider there's a package foo which is built against libbar-dev and > > uses pkg-config to obtain the necessary CFLAGS and LIBS for libbar. > > > Now is it the foo package's or the libbar-dev package's duty to provide > > the dependency on pkg-config? > > Disagreeing with the others: It is the -dev package's responsibility. > > The foo package's build dependencies are only relevant when building the > foo package. For someone who develops software based on libbar, it is > not obvious that foo's build dependencies are required. > Except that a -dev package can be perfectly functional without pkg-config. So, in that case it should not be a dependency, but a recommends. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com
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