Stefan Teleman wrote: > > > James Carlson wrote: > >> The output of pkgconfig itself isn't private; it's used by other >> software to find this library. >> >> The file that is contributed by this library to make pkgconfig work is >> private. Nothing (other than pkgconfig itself) should be reaching >> around into /usr/lib/pkgconfig directly. > > PSARC 2004/049 [ openssl.pc for pkg-config ] established precedent for > pkg-config *.pc files as follows: > > <QUOTE> > The existance of the openssl.pc file is Stable, the contents are > Unstable, the contents reference stuff declared as External in > PSARC/2003/500. > /QUOTE>
You missed the important part of that case where I explicitly mentioned precedent though: "It is possible that this case sets some precedent with respect to pkg-config(1) and External libraries. Though pkg-config(1) is itself External and is in /usr/bin." Note that since I didn't actually say "this case establishes precedent" it doesn't create a precedent. I just highlighted in the intro that there maybe a desire to discuss precedent in the particular case of External interfaces - no such discussion happened in that case (in fact no discussion happened in that case at all). -- Darren J Moffat
