On Sat, Aug 17, 2024 at 6:13 AM Jussi Pakkanen <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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 it to build-essential is a good idea. It was rejected once
before but that was a long time ago: https://bugs.debian.org/380228

I'll ask again but it might get ignored like the even more clear
request to add debhelper https://bugs.debian.org/1021881

> > 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.

It was mentioned in comment #5 there

Thank you,
Jeremy Bícha

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