Bug#539225: requesting pkconfig *.pc file check with special eye on multiarch

[Goswin von Brederlow <goswin-v-b@web.de>]

Hi,

the check Raphael did seem basically sound. With two exceptions:

>> usr/lib64/pkgconfig/libffi.pc libdevel/lib64ffi-dev
>
> ugh

I think that is actually the right position under the old biarch scheme.
Might be hard to detect when the dir is actualy right though. Given the
small number of such packages and that they would go away under
multiarch a lintian override would be OK there.

>> usr/share/xemacs21/xemacs-packages/pkginfo/MANIFEST.pc  editors/xemacs21-basesupport
>
> TP?

Is that actually a pkconfig file?


What I think Raphael didn't test is the right package. The *.pc files
belong in the -dev package [if there is one?].


And later, with multiarch the location changes. If Multi-Arch: same is
set then the multiarch dir must be used:
/usr/lib/$(DEB_HOST_GNU_TYPE)/pkgconfig or /usr/share/pkgconfig for the
few truely architecture independent files.

The new location is pending pkgconfig being able to look there
though. So for now lintian has to complain about *.pc files in the
multiarch dirs. If libraries are converted to multiarch it is easy to
accidentally move the *.pc file to the multiarch dir as well and
pkgconfig won't find it anymore. The check would be mainly to prevent
such accidents. I didn't expect there to already be some other true
positives.

MfG
        Goswin