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Re: pkg-config: required as dep so often - How and where to report?

From Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de>
Newsgroups linux.debian.user
Subject Re: pkg-config: required as dep so often - How and where to report?
Date 2018-05-04 17:30 +0200
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On 2018-05-04 09:58 -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote:

> On Fri, May 04, 2018 at 03:48:26PM +0200, Alexander Traud wrote:
>> To compile a (quite large) project, I had to install several packages
>> (dependencies). The project required the tool pkg-config. However, that
>> was not mentioned anywhere. Still the project compiled/built, because
>> one of the other dependencies (libsrtp2-dev) installed pkg-config as
>> side effect. So, I had pure luck that it succeeded.
>
> libc6-dev depends on pkg-config,

Huh?  No it doesn't:

$ apt-cache show libc6-dev | grep Depends
Depends: libc6 (= 2.27-3), libc-dev-bin (= 2.27-3), linux-libc-dev

Cheers,
       Sven

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pkg-config: required as dep so often - How and where to report? Alexander Traud <pabstraud@compuserve.com> - 2018-05-04 15:50 +0200
  Re: pkg-config: required as dep so often - How and where to report? Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2018-05-04 16:00 +0200
    Re: pkg-config: required as dep so often - How and where to report? Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de> - 2018-05-04 17:30 +0200
      Re: pkg-config: required as dep so often - How and where to report? Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2018-05-04 17:40 +0200
  Re: pkg-config: required as dep so often - How and where to report? Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de> - 2018-05-04 17:50 +0200
    Re: pkg-config: required as dep so often - How and where to report? Alexander Traud <pabstraud@compuserve.com> - 2018-05-05 12:40 +0200
  Re: pkg-config: required as dep so often - How and where to report? deloptes <deloptes@gmail.com> - 2018-05-05 20:50 +0200
  Re: pkg-config: required as dep so often - How and where to report? Alexander Traud <pabstraud@compuserve.com> - 2018-06-11 13:40 +0200

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