Bug#914554: clxclient FTBFS: freetype-config not found

[Hugh McMaster]

On Sunday, 25 November 2018 8:13 AM, Mattia Rizzolo wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 24, 2018 at 09:43:31PM +0100, Helmut Grohne wrote:
>> clxclient fails to build from source in unstable, because
>> freetype-config got removed. You're supposed to use pkg-config instead.
>> The attached patch fixes the build.

> That's despite the package not build-dependending on freetype nor any
> binary having a dependency on it.
> That's wrong on several levels, so please investigate why is it so, I'd
> expect both a build-dep and a runtime dependency.

clxclient (build-)depends on libxft-dev, which depends on libfreetype6-dev.
So, it looks like clxclient used the secondary dependency to
get access to freetype-config.