Bug#996942: libglib-perl: pkg-config really required?

[Alexander Traud]

Package: libglib-perl
Version: 3:1.329.3-1build1

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 libcairo-perl and libcairo-gobject-perl.

[1] <https://salsa.debian.org/perl-team/modules/packages/libglib-perl/-/commit/a0eab9d2473d89b01735225462b8ee98707597c3>