Bug#996940: libcairo-perl: pkg-config really required?

[Alexander Traud]

Package: libcairo-perl
Version: 1.109-1

Two years ago [1], the developer-only tool pkg-config was added as dependency. Because of that, every (even a minimal) Ubuntu Desktop contains that tool nowadays, because its Update Manager depends on libgtk3-perl.

Does this package really use this tool at runtime? If yes, currently every user even non-developers have to install pkg-config. Any possibility to avoid that?

The same bug report was created for the packages libglib-perl and libcairo-gobject-perl.

[1] <https://salsa.debian.org/perl-team/modules/packages/libcairo-perl/-/commit/422b6b7491962f9b8dda5c506f46b9f4b6422ccf>