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Re: Should -dev packages providing .pc files depend on pkg-config?



* Neil Williams 

| That is an example of a library including pkg-config into the library
| API. Changing that behaviour (dropping the script) means a SONAME bump.

No, changing an API without changing the ABI does not mean a SONAME
bump.  SONAMEs are for ABIs, not APIs and one can change without the
other changing.

-- 
Tollef Fog Heen
UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are


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