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

[Darren Salt <linux@youmustbejoking.demon.co.uk>]

I demand that Gabor Gombas may or may not have written...

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> Also, if it's the -dev package that depends on the tool and the tool
> changes, then the users will get worse error messages.

Unless the -dev package has a wrapper for that tool, e.g. for backward
compatibility reasons. xine-config in libxine-dev, for example, started using
pkg-config; Depends is correct since everything which needs xine-lib uses
xine-config (or at least I've not seen any which don't).

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