This one time, at band camp, Simon Richter said: > 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. Since foo expects to run pkg-config from it's ./configure, that seems entirely reasonable. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- | ,''`. Stephen Gran | | : :' : sgran@debian.org | | `. `' Debian user, admin, and developer | | `- http://www.debian.org | -----------------------------------------------------------------
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