Bug#744086: libmate-desktop-dev: please fix dependency specifications

Aaron M. Ucko ucko at debian.org
Wed Apr 9 23:07:25 UTC 2014


Package: libmate-desktop-dev
Version: 1.8.0+dfsg1-3
Severity: serious
Justification: Policy 8.4
Control: affects -1 src:eom

As it stands, mate-desktop-2.0.pc specifies

  Requires: gtk+-2.0 libstartup-notification-1.0 dconf

but libmate-desktop-dev's only -dev dependency is on
libstartup-notification0-dev; this discrepancy makes eom FTBFS.

Judging by its headers' #include directives, I'd suggest specifying

  Requires: gdk-pixbuf-2.0 gtk+-2.0
  Requires.private: dconf libstartup-notification-1.0

and

  Depends: ${misc:Depends}, libmate-desktop-2-17 (= ${binary:Version}),
           libgdk-pixbuf2.0-dev, libgtk2.0-dev

Could you please look into doing so?

Thanks!

-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (300, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 3.13-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages libmate-desktop-dev depends on:
ii  libmate-desktop-2-17          1.8.0+dfsg1-3
ii  libstartup-notification0-dev  0.12-3

libmate-desktop-dev recommends no packages.

libmate-desktop-dev suggests no packages.

-- no debconf information



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