Hi, Many packages are buggy and include the .pc file in the main package (not the -dev).
Mass bugfiling with allowed? Which severity? A quick apt-file search on sarge/i386 shows: $ apt-file search \.pc | grep pc$ | grep pkgconfig | grep -v dev beast: usr/lib/pkgconfig/bse.pc beast: usr/lib/pkgconfig/sfi.pc gdesklets: usr/lib/pkgconfig/gdesklets-core.pc gkrellm-common: usr/lib/pkgconfig/gkrellm.pc gnome-icon-theme: usr/lib/pkgconfig/gnome-icon-theme.pc gnome-media: usr/lib/pkgconfig/gnome-media-profiles.pc gnome-mime-data: usr/lib/pkgconfig/gnome-mime-data-2.0.pc gnome-system-tools: usr/lib/pkgconfig/gnome-system-tools.pc gnome-system-tools: usr/lib/pkgconfig/system-tools-backends.pc gnopernicus: usr/lib/pkgconfig/gnopernicus-1.0.pc gok: usr/lib/pkgconfig/gok-1.0.pc gretl: usr/lib/pkgconfig/gretl.pc gstreamer-gconf: usr/lib/pkgconfig/gstreamer-gconf-0.6.pc gtk-doc-tools: usr/lib/pkgconfig/gtk-doc.pc gtk2-engines-pixbuf: usr/lib/pkgconfig/gtk-engines-2.pc iso-codes: usr/lib/pkgconfig/iso-codes.pc libgdgeda6: usr/lib/pkgconfig/libgdgeda.pc libgeda20: usr/lib/pkgconfig/libgeda.pc libsmi2: usr/lib/pkgconfig/libsmi.pc libsword4: usr/lib/pkgconfig/sword.pc libxml1: usr/lib/pkgconfig/libxml.pc openbox: usr/lib/pkgconfig/obparser-3.0.pc openbox: usr/lib/pkgconfig/obrender-3.0.pc planner: usr/lib/pkgconfig/libplanner-1.pc prime: usr/lib/pkgconfig/prime.pc python2.3-pyorbit: usr/lib/pkgconfig/pyorbit-2.pc rhythmbox: usr/lib/pkgconfig/rhythmbox.pc shared-mime-info: usr/lib/pkgconfig/shared-mime-info.pc smlnj-runtime: usr/lib/pkgconfig/smlnj.pc streamtuner: usr/lib/pkgconfig/streamtuner.pc valgrind: usr/lib/pkgconfig/valgrind.pc xffm4: usr/lib/pkgconfig/xffm-1.0.pc Regards, Rene -- .''`. René Engelhard -- Debian GNU/Linux Developer : :' : http://www.debian.org | http://people.debian.org/~rene/ `. `' [EMAIL PROTECTED] | GnuPG-Key ID: 248AEB73 `- Fingerprint: 41FA F208 28D4 7CA5 19BB 7AD9 F859 90B0 248A EB73