Package: gnumeric Version: 1.12.30-1 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer,
the QA tool adequate[1] reports the issue mentioned in the subject: $ adequate gnumeric gnumeric: missing-pkgconfig-dependency libspreadsheet-1.12 => libgsf-1 this is because gnumeric ships libspreadsheet-1.12.pc but does not depend on the package containing libgsf-1.pc (libgsf-1-dev). This also results in this error when running pkg-config: $ pkg-config --libs libspreadsheet-1.12 Package libgsf-1 was not found in the pkg-config search path. Perhaps you should add the directory containing `libgsf-1.pc' to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable Package 'libgsf-1', required by 'libspreadsheet-1.12', not found The latter problem is solved by installing libgsf-1-dev, but having gnumeric depend on it does not seems appropriate. IMHO a possible clean solution would be to move libspreadsheet-1.12.pc and the files in /usr/include/libspreadsheet-1.12 to a new package, say gnumeric-dev or libspreadsheet-dev and have this new package depend on libgsf-1-dev. Just an idea. Thanks, Antonio [1] https://packages.debian.org/sid/adequate -- System Information: Debian Release: stretch/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (900, 'unstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 4.6.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=it_IT.utf8, LC_CTYPE=it_IT.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages gnumeric depends on: ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.59 ii gnumeric-common 1.12.30-1 ii gsfonts 1:8.11+urwcyr1.0.7~pre44-4.2 ii libatk1.0-0 2.20.0-1 ii libc6 2.22-13 ii libcairo2 1.14.6-1+b1 ii libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 2.34.0-1 ii libglib2.0-0 2.48.1-1 ii libgoffice-0.10-10 0.10.30-1 ii libgsf-1-114 1.14.38-1 ii libgtk-3-0 3.20.6-2 ii libpango-1.0-0 1.40.1-1 ii libpangocairo-1.0-0 1.40.1-1 ii libxml2 2.9.3+dfsg1-1.2 ii procps 2:3.3.11-3 ii zlib1g 1:1.2.8.dfsg-2+b1 Versions of packages gnumeric recommends: ii evince 3.20.1-1 ii gnumeric-doc 1.12.30-1 ii lp-solve 5.5.0.15-4 Versions of packages gnumeric suggests: ii fonts-liberation 1.07.4-1 pn gnumeric-plugins-extra <none> ii ttf-mscorefonts-installer 3.6 -- debconf information excluded -- Antonio Ospite http://ao2.it A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
