On Wed, 20 Oct 2021 20:11:30 +0200, Alexander Traud wrote:
> Two years ago, the developer tool pkg-config was added as
> dependency in the packages libglib-perl [1], libcairo-perl [2], and
> libcairo-gobject-perl [3]. Because of that, (even a minimal) Ubuntu
> Desktop installation contains that tool nowadays, because its
> Update Manager depends on libgtk3-perl.
>
> Is that an issue, I should report as bug via the usual channels,
> for each of these three packages? Or was that done on some purpose,
> I do not understand.
Taking a very quick look, this happened because the upstream
META.{json,yml} define them as a runtime requirements.
My hunch is that this might be wrong; so yes, please file bugs and
we'll take a closer look to see if these runtime dependencies are
actually bogus.
Cheers,
gregor
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