Bug#326199: libgtk2.0-dev breaks pkg-config with unsatisfiable requirement

[David Nusinow]

On Fri, Sep 02, 2005 at 06:42:15PM +0200, Fionn Behrens wrote:
> On Fr, 2005-09-02 at 18:13 +0200, Sebastien Bacher wrote: 
> > Le jeudi 01 septembre 2005 à 09:01 +0200, Fionn Behrens a écrit :
> > > Package: libgtk2.0-dev
> > > Version: 2.8.2-1
> > > Severity: important
> > > Tags: experimental
> > > 
> > > In /usr/lib/pkgconfig/gdk-2.0.pc gdk requires a package "x11" but there
> > > is no package in the entire debian repository that contains the file
> > > /usr/lib/pkgconfig/x11.pc to satisfy this requirement.
> > > Effectively, this prevents a lot of software that uses pkg-config from
> > > building properly!
> > 
> > That would be a xorg issue, not a GTK one ....
> 
> It is a general issue, because there is no package anywhere in debian at
> all, be it xorg or x11 or whatever, that carries this required file.
> 
> If your package needs this file, then YOU should probably file a bug against
> whoever you think should take action. 
> Until then, please try to avoid breaking the build config of normal
> debian users. (earlier versions of libgtk2.0-dev went fine without the
> x11 requirement)

I haven't looked yet, but I believe that x11.pc will ship with the modular
X tree, i.e. 7.0. Debian has not yet begun work on this, in favor of
shipping 6.9 first. While it's my goal to ship the modular tree in the etch
release, it is entirely possible that we'll ship 6.9. Because of this, any
packages need to be prepared to work with the modular tree.

 - David Nusinow