Re: pkg-config: required as dep so often - How and where to report?

On 04th of May 2018, Alexander Traud wrote: Do you have an idea, where I report this? Do I report this just with those packages which affect me: - libsrtp2-dev -

Re: pkg-config: required as dep so often - How and where to report?

Alexander Traud wrote: > Or am I on the complete wrong track and this is not even a minor bug? IMO it is not really a bug, because I do not need pkg-config, to build some peace of code. pkg-config is needed in case you use the build scripts that require pkg-config, but the developer could not

Re: pkg-config: required as dep so often - How and where to report?

>> libsrtp2-dev needs pkg-config only when I compile it myself. > The libsrtp2-dev package surely both depends and build-depends on > pkg-config. Yes, the package description (debian/control) does. The created files do not. I can compile, link, and run with libsrtp2.so without pkg-config.

Re: pkg-config: required as dep so often - How and where to report?

On 2018-05-04 15:48 +0200, Alexander Traud wrote: > To compile a (quite large) project, I had to install several packages > (dependencies). The project required the tool pkg-config. However, that > was not mentioned anywhere. Still the project compiled/built, because > one of the other

Re: pkg-config: required as dep so often - How and where to report?

On Fri, May 04, 2018 at 05:26:22PM +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2018-05-04 09:58 -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > > On Fri, May 04, 2018 at 03:48:26PM +0200, Alexander Traud wrote: > >> To compile a (quite large) project, I had to install several packages > >> (dependencies). The project

Re: pkg-config: required as dep so often - How and where to report?

On 2018-05-04 09:58 -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Fri, May 04, 2018 at 03:48:26PM +0200, Alexander Traud wrote: >> To compile a (quite large) project, I had to install several packages >> (dependencies). The project required the tool pkg-config. However, that >> was not mentioned anywhere.

Re: pkg-config: required as dep so often - How and where to report?

On Fri, May 04, 2018 at 03:48:26PM +0200, Alexander Traud wrote: > To compile a (quite large) project, I had to install several packages > (dependencies). The project required the tool pkg-config. However, that > was not mentioned anywhere. Still the project compiled/built, because > one of the

pkg-config: required as dep so often - How and where to report?

To compile a (quite large) project, I had to install several packages (dependencies). The project required the tool pkg-config. However, that was not mentioned anywhere. Still the project compiled/built, because one of the other dependencies (libsrtp2-dev) installed pkg-config as side effect. So,