Package: libgcrypt11-dev Severity: wishlist Currently libgcrypt11-dev ships with a "libgcrypt-config" which causes trouble for Debian. It spreads unnecessary dependencies on libgpg-error0 all the way up the dependency chain to every package which uses it.
While this is basically a bug in each of those packages (they shouldn't be using libgcrypt-config), it is rather tedious to fix it in all those packages, because the fixes cannot go upstream. If libgcrypt11-dev used pkg-config with Libs.private (or provided a libgcrypt-config which understood shared libraries), then the other packages could switch to using pkg-config for libgcrypt, a change which *could* go upstream. For background, see http://rerun.lefant.net/checklib/ . If libgpg-error ever changes soname, there will be a world of hurt for transitions to testing, and it's all caused by libgcrypt-config. Thanks for considering this. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
