Bug#833300: closed by Michael Biebl <biebl at debian.org> (Re: Bug#833300: libgtksourceview2.0-dev: Please depend on libpng-dev)

[Ximin Luo]

Emilio Pozuelo Monfort:
> [..]
> 
> The failure indicates that something is missing a dependency on libpng-dev, but
> pkg-config is recursive. So when you do `pkg-config --cflags gtksourceview-2.0'
> it will look for the cflags of required packages, recursively. And the package
> that requires libpng is the one that should depend on it.
> 
> [..]
> 
> Searching for 'cairo' private requirement 'libpng'
> Looking for package 'libpng'
> Looking for package 'libpng-uninstalled'
> 
> [..]
> 
> So the question here is: what version of libcairo2-dev do you have installed,
> and why don't you have libpng-dev installed?
> 

OK, thanks for the explanation. This time I force-uninstalled libpng-dev to reproduce the bug, so the log may not be the most accurate. I don't know why libpng-dev was not installed originally when I filed the bug report; I'll have to dig deeper for that and it will take a while.

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