Package: lintian Version: 2.5.123 Severity: wishlist Dear Maintainer,
please consider implementing check for packages, that have pkg-config files, but do not provide associated shared libraries. This suggestion is inspired by #919180: package libcapnp-dev installs `kj-http.pc', with $ pkg-config --libs kj-http.pc -lkj-http -lkj-async -lkj but shared library kj-http is not installed. Format of pkg-config files seems to be rather simple, so something as crude, as $ grep '^Libs:' foo.pc | tr ' ' '\n' | grep -- '^-l' might give list of libraries that must be present. -- System Information: Debian Release: buster/sid APT prefers buildd-unstable APT policy: (500, 'buildd-unstable'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'buildd-experimental'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 4.19.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=eo.utf8, LC_CTYPE=eo.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=eo.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash Init: runit (via /run/runit.stopit) Versions of packages lintian depends on: ii binutils 2.31.1-11 ii bzip2 1.0.6-9 ii diffstat 1.62-1 ii dpkg 1.19.2 ii dpkg-dev 1.19.2 ii file 1:5.35-2 ii gettext 0.19.8.1-9 ii gpg 2.2.12-1 ii intltool-debian 0.35.0+20060710.4 ii libapt-pkg-perl 0.1.34+b1 ii libarchive-zip-perl 1.64-1 ii libcgi-pm-perl 4.40-1 ii libclass-accessor-perl 0.51-1 ii libclone-perl 0.41-1+b1 pn libdigest-sha-perl <none> ii libdpkg-perl 1.19.2 ii libemail-valid-perl 1.202-1 pn libfile-basedir-perl <none> ii libio-async-perl 0.72-1 ii libipc-run-perl 20180523.0-1 ii liblist-moreutils-perl 0.416-1+b4 ii libparse-debianchangelog-perl 1.2.0-13 pn libtext-levenshtein-perl <none> pn libtimedate-perl <none> ii liburi-perl 1.76-1 ii libxml-simple-perl 2.25-1 ii libyaml-libyaml-perl 0.76+repack-1 ii man-db 2.8.5-1 ii patchutils 0.3.4-2 ii perl 5.28.1-3 ii t1utils 1.41-3 ii xz-utils 5.2.2-1.3 Versions of packages lintian recommends: pn libperlio-gzip-perl <none> Versions of packages lintian suggests: pn binutils-multiarch <none> ii libhtml-parser-perl 3.72-3+b3 pn libtext-template-perl <none> -- no debconf information
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