Bug#327618: libqt4-dev: Missing dependency
On Sun, Sep 11, 2005 at 08:52:51AM -0700, Brian Nelson wrote:
> Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be> writes:
>
> > Your package has a QtSql.pc and Qt3Support.pc pkg-config file
> > included. Packages using that fail to build because you're
> > atleast missing a dependency on libmysqlclient14-dev, and looks
> > like on libpq-dev too. Maybe some others?
>
> Well, it suggests libqt4-sql, which in turn suggests libmysqlclient-dev
> and libpq-dev. However, that probably isn't strong enough; I should
> probably just recommend them directly in libqt4-dev.
>
> I don't think a strong dependency is needed though, since most Qt apps
> don't use the SQL module.
Anything linking against either of those that is using pkg-config
is going to have a build problem, because pgk-config is rather
annoying about things like that. It really requires a Depends on
those pacakges for now.
Kurt
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