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 -- .''`. https://info.comodo.priv.at -- Debian Developer https://www.debian.org : :' : OpenPGP fingerprint D1E1 316E 93A7 60A8 104D 85FA BB3A 6801 8649 AA06 `. `' Member VIBE!AT & SPI Inc. -- Supporter Free Software Foundation Europe `-
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