Re: Should -dev packages providing .pc files depend on pkg-config?

[Simon Richter <Simon.Richter@hogyros.de>]

Hi,

> > 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.

With a recommends, foo will still need to declare a build dependency.

   Simon