Bug#892956: libinput-dev: Requires.private without package dependencies breaks pkg-config users

[Timo Aaltonen <tjaalton@debian.org>]

On 14.03.2018 22:25, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> Package: libinput-dev
> Version: 1.10.3-1
> Severity: grave
> Control: affects -1 src:efl src:gnome-twitch src:muffin src:mutter src:gnome-shell
> 
> https://buildd.debian.org/status/package.php?p=efl&suite=sid
> 
> ...
> configure: error: pkg-config missing libinput >= 0.6.0 xkbcommon >= 0.3.0 libudev
> 
> 
> Root cause are the new dependencies in Requires.private
> without package dependencies:
> 
> $ pkg-config --cflags  libinput
> Package libwacom was not found in the pkg-config search path.
> Perhaps you should add the directory containing `libwacom.pc'
> to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
> Package 'libwacom', required by 'libinput', not found

1.10.2-1 didn't have them, and nothing changed in 1.10.3 that would
result in this, so the culprit is elsewhere. Where did that
"Requires.private" come from?


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