Re: Auto-detecting -dev package dependences from pkg-config
On Mon, Dec 12, 2016 at 10:10:57AM -0700, Sean Whitton wrote:
> Hello Josh,
>
> On Sun, Dec 11, 2016 at 09:48:17PM -0800, Josh Triplett wrote:
> > dpkg-shlibdeps automatically generates Depends on library packages
> > corresponding to any libraries pulled in by the linker for the binaries
> > in a package. However, library -dev packages still have to manually
> > specify Depends on -dev packages that they require. In many cases, we
> > could infer this information from pkg-config dependencies: if a library
> > -dev package ships a pkg-config file, and that file includes Requires
> > pointing to other pkg-config files, we could infer Depends on the
> > packages shipping those other pkg-config files.
> >
> > I'd like to build some tools (possibly including a dh_pkgconfig) to do
> > this automatically; those tools could generate a pkgconfig:Depends
> > substvar for use in debian/control. Before starting on those tools, I'd
> > like to get some feedback on this idea.
>
> I take it that you want to put the automatically detected dependencies
> in the Build-Depends field?
No, in the Depends field of -dev packages.
(I'd love to auto-generate Build-Depends too, but that would require a
much larger overhaul, and the last time that came up the answer was a
resounding "no".)
- Josh Triplett
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