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>

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