[Pkg-gnutls-maint] Bug#405238: libgcrypt11-dev: Please consider switching to pkg-config or similar

[Andreas Metzler]

On 2007-01-02 Nathanael Nerode <neroden at gcc.gnu.org> wrote:
> Package: libgcrypt11-dev
> Severity: wishlist

> Currently libgcrypt11-dev ships with a "libgcrypt-config" which
> causes trouble for Debian.  It spreads unnecessary 
> dependencies on libgpg-error0 all the way up the dependency chain
> to every package which uses it.

> While this is basically a bug in each of those packages (they shouldn't
> be using libgcrypt-config), it is rather tedious to fix it in all
> those packages, because the fixes cannot go upstream.

Hello,
I will go the same way as with libgnutls and simply patch
libgcrypt-config to output just -lgcrypt on --libs.

> If libgcrypt11-dev used pkg-config with Libs.private (or provided a
> libgcrypt-config which understood shared libraries), then the other
> packages could switch to using pkg-config for libgcrypt, a change
> which *could* go upstream.

> For background, see http://rerun.lefant.net/checklib/ .
> If libgpg-error ever changes soname, there will be a world of hurt
> for transitions to testing, and it's all caused by libgcrypt-config.

FWIW that is rather unlikely event.
http://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnupg-devel/2004-March/020851.html

cu andreas
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