Bug#837839: libtasn1-6: (Future) FTBFS due to undeclared build dependencies

[Andreas Metzler]

On 2016-09-15 biebl at debian.org wrote:
> Source: libtasn1-6
> Version: 4.9-4
> Severity: important
> User: pkg-gnome-maintainers at lists.alioth.debian.org
> Usertags: gtk-doc-tools

> Hi,

> your package libtasn1-6 declares a build dependency on gtk-doc-tools.
> gtk-doc-tools in turn depends on gnome-common, which in turn pulls in packages
> like gettext, intltool or pkg-config.
[...]
> Please add the required build-dependencies to your package so once we upload
> gtk-doc-tools_1.25-4 to unstable your package doesn't FTBFS.

Hello Michael,

for libtasn1 the cause for the build-error is pkg-config. However I
think that is a gtk-doc-tools needs to add a dep on pkg-config since
GTK_DOC_CHECK requires it. So imho it is pretty much a hard dependency.

Please note that for libtasn1-6 I am not relying on gtk-doc-tools to
pull in pkg-config because libtasn1-6 requires it. The only thing
pkg-config is used for is for GTK_DOC_CHECK.

I have already submitted a report against gtk-doc-tools because I missed
the explicit mention of pkg-config in your report. Sorry for that.

cu Andreas
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