Bug#456335: gtk+2.0: pkg-config files should use private depends on libraries

[Bas Wijnen]

On Mon, Dec 17, 2007 at 06:47:49PM +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote:
> Hi,

Hi,

> Le vendredi 14 décembre 2007 à 18:51 +0100, Bas Wijnen a écrit :
> > For the usual case, where the library uses the other library internally,
> > the relation should be written as "Requires.private:".
> 
> Because all these dependencies are created by the configure script, it
> is a lot of work to remove them properly, so don’t expect this to be
> done in a snap.

Of course not.  I just wanted to have it reported, because of all
warnings I've seen from the new dpkg-shlibdeps, there were hardly any
which didn't come from gtk related stuff. ;-)

> I also think we should prepare a package in experimental
> and ask for a full archive rebuild with it.

Sounds reasonable.

Thanks,
Bas

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