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Bug#407528: marked as done (packages containing .pc files should generally depend on pkgconfig)

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Package: lintian
Version: 1.23.27
Severity: wishlist

Thanks Christian,  We have fixed this case for libcommoncpp2.

Perhaps lintian could check for .pc files == pkgconfig as a standard check?

Mark


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Subject: Bug#407296: libcommoncpp2-dev: Should depends on pkgconfig
Date: Wednesday 17 January 2007 12:47
From: Christian Marillat <marillat@debian.org>
To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>

Package: libcommoncpp2-dev
Version: 1.5.3-2
Severity: normal

Hi,

This package provides .pc files in /usr/lib/pkgconfig but doesn't depends on
pkgconfig.

Christian

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Versions of packages libcommoncpp2-dev depends on:
ii  libcommoncpp2-1.5.3-0         1.5.3-2    A GNU package for creating portabl
ii  libgcrypt11-dev [libgcrypt-de 1.2.3-2    LGPL Crypto library - development 
ii  libgnutls-dev                 1.4.4-3    the GNU TLS library - development 
ii  zlib1g-dev                    1:1.2.3-13 compression library - development

libcommoncpp2-dev recommends no packages.

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Subject: Bug#407296: marked as done (libcommoncpp2-dev: Should depends on pkg-config)
Date: Thursday 18 January 2007 23:48
From: Debian Bug Tracking System <owner@bugs.debian.org>
To: Kilian Krause <kilian@debian.org>

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Neil Williams <codehelp@debian.org> writes:

>> I started thinking about this some more and I'm not sure that I
>> understand.  Do we really need a dependency on pkg-config?  That would
>> imply that such a package won't function properly without pkg-config
>> available.  Or is this more of a Recommends or even Suggests sort of
>> thing?

> I think the original request is the wrong way around. A package
> containing a .pc file doesn't necessarily need a .pc file for it's own
> build, it provides a .pc file used in builds of reverse dependencies.

> e.g.
> libA-dev includes foo.pc to describe itself.
> libB build depends on libA-dev.

> If libA only depends on libc6, it doesn't need pkg-config itself,
> despite providing a .pc file for reverse dependencies like libB.

> If libB upstream choose to use a different method of configuring libB to
> locate the libA CFLAGS and --libs output, then libB does not have to
> build-depend on pkg-config, even though libA includes a .pc. It is
> advisable and convenient to use .pc files where provided but it isn't
> compulsory. (Some .pc files are buggy and manual configuration can
> simplify dependency trees until such time as the .pc file is fixed.)

> There is nothing to require that libB itself has to provide a B.pc file
> even if libB upstream DO choose to use the .pc file from libA-dev.
> There is therefore no clear relationship between the existence of a .pc
> file in a -dev package and a dependency on pkg-config.

I concur with this analysis.  I don't think the original report is asking
for a check that would really be correct.

Closing this bug accordingly.

-- 
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>

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