On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 11:00:08 +0300, Ilkka Laukkanen wrote: > Hi, > > A while ago I noticed that it was possible to install packages in > Ubuntu (yes yes, bear with me) such that no packages are broken but > pkg-config fails, saying that libdrm is not found. As far as I can > tell, this is due to mesa-common-dev's dri.pc having the line > "Requires.private: libdrm >= x.y.z", but mesa-common-dev doesn't > depend on libdrm.pc. > > The reason I'm telling you is because this dependency has been added > in Ubuntu's mesa-common-dev, but the maintainer told me to ask Debian > about this as well... so, here I am :) > > In short, is this a valid bug? I can't come up with a reasonable > explanation other than that. Second, what do you think of the fix? > > The Launchpad bug (and patch) is at > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mesa/+bug/490811 > dri.pc is only used by the X server, which already build-depends on libdrm-dev. I don't think adding the depends in mesa-common-dev brings any value. Why does it matter that pkg-config is unhappy with dri.pc if nothing uses dri.pc? Cheers, Julien
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