On Mon, Dec 3, 2007 at 17:33:41 +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Every successful call to pkg-config would fill in a file, let’s say > debian/pkgconfig.deps, that would in the end contain: > > # pkgconfig_file required_version dev_package shared_package > version > x11 1.0.2 libx11-dev libx11-6 2:1.0.3-7 > gtk+2.0 2.8 libgtk2.0-dev libgtk2.0-0 2.12.2-1 > gconf 2.0 libgconf2-dev libgconf2-4 2.20.1-1 > (The package version is needed because you need to extract epochs.) > > In the end, shlibs generation would be able to generate the correct > dependency, based on the highest of the three versions: > 1. the version required by upstream; > 2. the version required by the build-deps; > 3. the version generated by the symbols file. > > Plus, in this specific case, it would make the build fail because the > Debian maintainer has forgotten to bump the libx11-dev build-dependency > to 2:1.0.2, which is deadly useful information. > Why would you depend on any particular version of libx11-6? The build-dep on libx11-dev >= 1.0.2 I can understand, but the runtime dependency has nothing to do with this.
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