Bug#504220: Missing dependencies

[Reinhard Tartler]

Hello Tollef,

We are a bit confused about the behavior of Requires.private fields in
*.pc files. Could you please as pkg-config maintainer and upstream
please read the buglog of #504220 and give us your opinion on the issue?

The question for me is whether this is actually a bug of pkg-config, or
if Requires.private fields really imply that packages shipping the .pc
need to copy that to the Depends field or are we talking about a bug in
pkg-config.

In any case, a proper explanation of this issue in some README.Debian
file in the pkg-config issue would be really helpful. I suspect such a
file would suitable to close both #475031 (against pkg-config, severity:
important) and #341977 (pkg-config as well, severity: normal).


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Gruesse/greetings,
Reinhard Tartler, KeyID 945348A4