On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 01:33:28 +0400, Michael Tokarev wrote:

> 17.08.2011 01:24, Julien Cristau wrote:
> > On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 00:59:36 +0400, Michael Tokarev wrote:
> >> 17.08.2011 00:46, Julien Cristau wrote:
> >>
> >>> Even with Requires.private you'll need the corresponding -dev packages
> >>> in Depends, because pkg-config will look for them for --cflags, just not
> >>> --libs.
> >>
> >> You're right, it complains without libpixman-1-dev too, just as before.
> []
> > What problem are you trying to solve that doesn't go away with Depends:
> > libpixman-1-dev?
> 
> We'll need to list all the rest in build-depends too, and update
> it every time upstream will pick something else as needlessly as
> it is now.  In particular, currently it's libssl-dev (right version) --
> provided we patched out various other X bits.  With this particular
> user - qemu-kvm - it so happens that libssl-dev gets pulled too,
> unlike libpixmap, so there's no issue here.  For other package that
> will try to use libspice, there will be yet another bug of the same
> nature but due to missing libssl-dev dependency.
> 
> The problem is to have real dependencies - both build- and run-tme,
> no less (to avoid bugs like this) and no more (to avoid pulling
> whole archive just to install a random binary).
> 
I have no idea what you're trying to say here, sorry.

Cheers,
Julien



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