libquicktime... finally(?)

[Loïc Minier]

On Wed, Jul 18, 2007, Fabian Greffrath wrote:
> OK. Could this be done by adding [!hurd-i386 !kfreebsd-amd64 !
> kfreebsd-i386] to the deps of libquicktime-dev (as in the build-deps)
> instead of variable substitution?

 Unfortunately, this isn't supported (yet).

> >  - check whether the libquicktime-dev deps are correct (they are empty
> >    right now, this might not be correct) or fix them
> Hehe, is there another way than trial-and-error to find this out...?

 You can grep for public #include on other libs and for Requires in the
 .pc files (if any); if the library has a "-config" utility, you can
 check what link flags it pulls (if it forces linking against -lfoo, you
 should depend on libfoo-dev).

> > Hmm not sure what to do about this: did all applications build against
> >  the experimental versions which did not have this header?
> 
> Well, that's also tricky. All the packages I tried to build did succeed
> (e.g. transcode). I asked the maintainers of all the rdepending packages
> to test-build their applications against the packages in experimental,
> but you cannot be sure that everyone actually followed this advise...

 So if they supposedly built without the private header and it's not
 installed by upstream, I would go without it for now and report this
 upstream.

-- 
Loïc Minier