Bug#861236: portaudio19 should build-depend on pkg-config

[Andrew Shadura]

Control: severity -1 minor

On 27 April 2017 at 10:50, Bernhard Schmidt <berni at birkenwald.de> wrote:
> On 26.04.2017 13:37, Andrew Shadura wrote:
>
> Hi Andrew,
>
>> Source: portaudio19
>> Version: 19+svn20140130-1
>> Severity: important
>> Control: found -1 19.6.0-1
>>
>> Dear Maintainer,
>>
>> Since portaudio19 package uses autoreconf, it should build-depend on
>> pkg-config package. Without that dependency, it fails to reconfigure
>> itself:
>>
>> ./configure: line 16045: syntax error near unexpected token `JACK,'
>> ./configure: line 16045: `    PKG_CHECK_MODULES(JACK, jack, have_jack=yes, have_jack=no)'
>>     "tail -v -n +0 config.log"
>>

> Hrm, I'm a bit unsure why you would need this, as it is already pulled
> in. portaudio19 build-depends on libjack-dev, and libjack-dev depends on
> pkg-config, so it should already be there. Also the buildd logs show
> that it is getting installed.

Right, we’re building it without JACK, that’s why. In any case, an
explicit dependency is better than an implicit.

-- 
Cheers,
  Andrew