Bug#945922: please move/copy systemd.pc out of the daemon package

[Laurent Bigonville]

On Sun, 01 Dec 2019 04:19:25 +0100 Adam Borowski <kilobyte at angband.pl>
wrote:

>
> Hi!
> The pkg-config file for systemd is in the daemon package, rather than
a -dev
> package as one would expect. This means that the maintainer of any package
> that uses this .pc has to either:
> * make it unbuildable without a chroot
> * drop systemd support
> * reinvent what .pc would provide
>
> In some cases the last option is reasonable but still hacky, like:
>
https://github.com/kilobyte/ndctl/commit/fce6efb8bf5f39b6a4de13b5961e56abba6bd4ef
> but it can get nastier when recursive dependencies are involved.
>
> Because of bin:systemd's special status, the usual ways of gracefully
moving
> a file would be obnoxious, I propose to, in one package, ship
systemd.pc in
> /usr/share/pkgconfig/, and in the other, in /usr/lib/$MULTIARCH/pkgconfig/
> -- pkg-config's path search makes it DTRT, and, with a hard versioned
> dependency, it can't possibly get out of sync.
>

I'm not sure what you mean by "special status" and why systemd.pc file
should be moved to an other package.

The bin:systemd package is not switching the initsystem of the machine
to systemd, that's systemd-sysv.