Re: Should -dev packages providing .pc files depend on pkg-config?

[Stephen Gran <sgran@xxxxxxxxxx>]

This one time, at band camp, Fabian Greffrath said:
> Dear all,
> 
> well, the subject line allready asks the question.
> 
> Consider there's a package foo which is built against libbar-dev and
> uses pkg-config to obtain the necessary CFLAGS and LIBS for libbar.
> 
> Now is it the foo package's or the libbar-dev package's duty to provide
> the dependency on pkg-config?

foo should have a Build-Depends on pkg-config, since it calls it in it's
configure.
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