Bug#917549: Development file udev.pc is in main udev package

[Michael Biebl]

Control: severity -1 wishlist

Am 28.12.18 um 15:11 schrieb Pali Rohár:
> Package: udev
> Version: 240-2
> 
> Currently pkg-config's udev.pc file is in main udev package. Therefore
> other packages which needs udev.pc for compilation need to install whole
> udev. So they need to declare Build-Depends: udev.

What exactly is the problem with build-depending on udev? On most
systems it will be installed anyway and the footprint of udev and its
dependencies is not that much.

> File udev.pc is for development and compilation of other packages,
> therefore it should be in separate some -dev package.

What exactly do you need from udev.pc?

If you link against libudev, you want libudev.pc which is shipped in
libudev-dev.

Splitting out only udev.pc into a new binary package udev-dev seems a
bit like overkill.

Regards,
Michael

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