Bug#734480: please drop versioned build-depends on pkg-config

[Michael Biebl]

Hi Andrew

On Tue, 07 Jan 2014 16:02:16 +0100 Andrew Shadura <andrewsh at debian.org>
wrote:
> Source: gtk+2.0
> Version: 2.24.10-2
> Severity: wishlist
> 
> Please change the versioned build-dependency on pkg-config on
> unversioned one. There's no other pkg-config version apart from
> 0.26-1 even in stable, so this is not necessary anymore.
> 
> However, keeping this dependency versioned means pkgconf can't
> provide pkg-config (as we have no versioned Provides), so
> pkg-config is still required to satisfy the dependency.

The changelog mentions that the version was added to get a multi-arch
capable version of pkg-config.

gtk+2.0 (2.24.5-4) unstable; urgency=low

  [ Steve Langasek ]
…
  * Make the -dev packages depend on a multiarch-capable version of
    pkg-config.


Is pkgconf multiarch capable?


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