[pkg-gnupg-maint] Bug#1023601: libgpgme-dev: removal of gpgme-config breaks the build of software relying on it

[Andreas Metzler]

On 2022-11-12 Andreas Metzler <ametzler at bebt.de> wrote:
> On 2022-11-11 Vincent Lefevre <vincent at vinc17.net> wrote:
> [...]
>> file and other configuration options.  The options that need to be added
>> to the compiler invocation at compile time are output by the ‘--cflags’
>> option to ‘gpgme-config’.  The following example shows how it can be
>> used at the command line:

>>      gcc -c foo.c `gpgme-config --cflags`

>>    Adding the output of ‘gpgme-config --cflags’ to the compiler command
> [...]

> That is clearly suboptimal. I am also do not fond of the fact that
> documentation for AM_PATH_GPGME requiring an earlier invocation of
> AM_PATH_GPG_ERROR seems to be missing.

I have filed https://dev.gnupg.org/T6273 (AM_PATH_GPG_ERROR
predependency) and https://dev.gnupg.org/T6274 (outdated docs).

cu Andreas
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