Bug#251429: control-center: FTBFS: Missing Build-Depends

[Daniel Schepler]

Michel Dänzer <daenzer@debian.org> writes:

> On Fri, 2004-05-28 at 05:39 -0700, Daniel Schepler wrote:
>> 
>> It appears that -lXrandr is getting pulled in from
>> libmetacity-private.la.  However, IMHO it would be better to update
>> control-center's copy of libtool rather than requiring libmetacity-dev
>> to pander to old broken versions of libtool.
>
> So I used to think, but AFAICT the dependency is still needed for static
> linking.

That's true, but static linking is an unusual case and should be
treated as such.  Dependencies put in solely for this purpose should
probably only be Suggests.  (All IMO, of course.)
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