Bug#504220: Missing dependencies

[Loïc Minier]

On Sun, Nov 02, 2008, Reinhard Tartler wrote:
> However no Requires.private. Can you perhaps point me to some better
> documentation what "Requires.private" is supposed to mean? Perhaps
> upstream rather meant to use Libs.private instead, which would probably
> "fix" this problem as well?

 Requires.private packages are required because they will pull Cflags
 down the pkg-config dependency chain.

 Libs.private could be used as a replacement, but it would not express
 as many things and would mix information about multiple pkg-config
 packages into one, which I think is wrong.

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Loïc Minier