Package: libowfat-dev Version: 0.32-5 Severity: wishlist Dear Maintainer,
Package libowfat-dev does not offer a pkg-config file. When building projects that depend on libowfat, finding include dirs and library versions in build scripts is rather difficult to handle across different platforms, and a pkg-config file would simplify this greatly. I'm in the process of reworking opentracker to build with CMake. Linking to libowfat-dev was quite a headache -- the include dirs are not consistent across platforms, and the version string can only be retrieved by parsing the changelog. The version string is needed to enable certain build definitions depending on the available libowfat version. You can find the build script below which is annotated with a handful of comments documenting the pains. https://github.com/brandon1024/opentracker/blob/cmake/cmake/FindLibowfat.cmake A pkg-config would allow me to more easily find and link to libowfat and configure the build appropriately. This wishlist bug also applies to the versions in testing and sid. -- System Information: Debian Release: 13.3 APT prefers stable-updates APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable-security'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 6.12.63+deb13-amd64 (SMP w/12 CPU threads; PREEMPT) Locale: LANG=en_CA.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_CA.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_CA:en Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) LSM: AppArmor: enabled Versions of packages libowfat-dev depends on: ii libc6-dev 2.41-12+deb13u1 ii libowfat0t64 0.32-5 libowfat-dev recommends no packages. libowfat-dev suggests no packages. -- no debconf information
