[Piuparts-devel] Bug#893022: Bug#893022: piuparts should check whether pkgconfig dependencies are also package dependencies

[Adrian Bunk]

On Thu, Mar 15, 2018 at 05:59:59PM +0000, Holger Levsen wrote:
> Hi Adrian,
> 
> thanks for the bug report.
> 
> On Thu, Mar 15, 2018 at 07:53:29PM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> > For all pkgconfig files that are part of a -dev package,
> > piuparts should check with "pkg-config --cflags" whether
> > the package dependencies cover everything that is required
> > for using it.
> 
> why? I mean, why do you think this should be done by piuparts and not by
> lintian or some other tool?
>...

lintian does not have information about other packages.

"install package and its dependencies into a minimal chroot and then
run a command" - piuparts was the tool that came into my mind for this
kind of tests.

> cheers,
> 	Holger

cu
Adrian

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