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

[Simon Richter <sjr@debian.org>]

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.

> Whoever develops software based on libbar will have to have a call to
> pkg-config somewhere in their build process so they should depend on
> pkg-config.

The use case here are people downloading a tarball and building that.
These people are going to use a prebuilt configure script and expect the
library to be found by it if the -dev package is installed.

   Simon