** Changed in: libpcap (Ubuntu Bionic)
Status: Triaged => In Progress
** Description changed:
+ [Impact]
+
+ Users of libpcap cannot make use of its pkg-config file in order to
+ automate the building process of applications that use the library,
+ because the file is not being installed on Ubuntu bionic.
+
+ [Test Case]
+
+ $ lxc launch ubuntu-daily:bionic libpcap-bug1865501
+ $ lxc shell libpcap-bug1865501
+ # apt update
+ # apt install libpcap-dev pkg-config -y
+ # pkg-config libpcap --libs
+
+ You will see an error like this:
+
+ Package libpcap was not found in the pkg-config search path.
+ Perhaps you should add the directory containing `libpcap.pc'
+ to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
+ No package 'libpcap' found
+
+ [Regression Potential]
+
+ - The libpcap package will be rebuilt using newer dependencies on
+ bionic, which might cause some unforeseen problem. The chances for this
+ to happen are very small, though.
+
+ - Users who created their own pkg-config file as a workaround should not
+ see any problems with the new file, as long as they are correctly
+ providingthe right parameters in their own files.
+
+ [Original Description]
+
libpcap-dev (and its derivative packages libpcap0.8-dev) is missing the
libpcap.pc file. The implication here is that any autoconf based
project that uses the PKG_CHECK_MODULES macro to determine the install
state of libpcap fails, as pkg-config can't find the install information
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