Bug#918301: libgdk-pixbuf2.0-dev: pkg-config reports version 2.10.14 when installed version is 2.36.5-2+deb9u2

[Ryan Richter]

On Fri, Jan 04, 2019 at 04:49:30PM -0500, Jeremy Bicha wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 4, 2019 at 4:33 PM <ryan at tau.solarneutrino.net> wrote:
> > pkg-config gtk+-3.0 --libs
> >
> > I get
> >
> > Package 'gdk-3.0' requires 'gdk-pixbuf-2.0 >= 2.30.0' but version of gdk-pixbuf-2.0 is 2.10.14
> >
> > In fact version 2.36.5-2+deb9u2 is installed.  The culprit seems to be /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/pkgconfig/gdk-pixbuf-2.0.pc which is part of this package.
> 
> Sorry, I can't reproduce this issue on Debian 9 "Stretch" with the
> test case you provided. If I could, I think it would be a serious bug
> that would break a lot of packages.
> 
> Please check if you have an older library installed to something like
> /usr/local/lib/

Yes, there was.  That's all it takes to throw off pkg-config?

Nevermind.

-ryan