> Could you add this to meson's dependencies? > > Depends: pkgconf > > meson's standard dependency function uses pkg-config in most cases. > > https://mesonbuild.com/Dependencies.html > > Recommends would not be enough since meson is primarily used in Debian > as a build dependency and the official Debian buildds don't install > Recommends.
I can do that if you want. On the other hand the same reasoning could be said for Autotools, CMake and any build system, really. So the question then would be if it might make sense to put the pkgconf dependency in the build-essential package instead? > Adding this dependency was previously suggested in > https://bugs.debian.org/893502 Are you sure that is the correct url? FWICT that is about a bugfix, not about dependency changes.
