On Sat, Sep 03, 2005 at 01:47:01PM +1000, skaller wrote: > On Fri, 2005-09-02 at 20:09 -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > > On Sat, Sep 03, 2005 at 12:46:31PM +1000, skaller wrote: > > > Does Debian have a policy on use of pkg-config? > > > On my Ubuntu systems there are some *.pc files, but the set > > > is not only incomplete .. it isn't closed either. > > > Perhaps pkg-config files should be REQUIRED for Debian, > > > and the package names should agree with the Debian ones? > > Er... that's certainly not enforceable. > Sure it is. If they're not provided, then lintian fails > the package, and the sponsors refuse to upload it, > same as other policies. No, it's not. The .pc names are set by upstream and we should not diverge from them, and the package names are governed by Debian policy and may not match the names upstream has assigned to the .pc files. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. vorlon@debian.org http://www.debian.org/
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