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

[Stephen Gran <sgran@xxxxxxxxxx>]

This one time, at band camp, Simon Richter said:
> Hi,
> 
> > > The foo package's build dependencies are only relevant when building the
> > > foo package. For someone who develops software based on libbar, it is
> > > not obvious that foo's build dependencies are required.
> 
> > Except that a -dev package can be perfectly functional without
> > pkg-config.  So, in that case it should not be a dependency, but a
> > recommends.
> 
> With a recommends, foo will still need to declare a build dependency.

Since foo expects to run pkg-config from it's ./configure, that
seems entirely reasonable.
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