Package: gstreamer1.0-tools Version: 1.11.91-1 Severity: normal gstreamer1.0-tools contains three binaries, and I can't find a reference in any of them to pkg-config. Despite that, the tools package depends on pkg-config, which in turn pulls in dpkg-dev and build-essential (if you use apt with recommends enabled by default).
pkg-config pulling on a packaging toolchain doesn't seem unreasonable at all, however gstreamer runtime libraries and tools doing so doesn't make any sense at all. Please drop this dep entirely if it really is unnecessary (which it looks like at a quick glance), or if there's a valid reason for it, do enlighten us, and maybe we can figure out a way to make it not need to do so. ... Adam -- System Information: Debian Release: stretch/sid APT prefers artful APT policy: (500, 'artful') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 4.10.0-19-lowlatency (SMP w/4 CPU cores; PREEMPT) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages gstreamer1.0-tools depends on: ii libc6 2.24-9ubuntu2 ii libglib2.0-0 2.52.0-1 ii libgstreamer1.0-0 1.11.91-1 ii pkg-config 0.29.1-0ubuntu2 gstreamer1.0-tools recommends no packages. Versions of packages gstreamer1.0-tools suggests: ii gstreamer1.0-plugins-base 1.11.91-1 -- no debconf information