Hi! On Sun, 2016-12-11 at 21:48:17 -0800, Josh Triplett wrote: > [Please CC me on replies.]
> I'd like to build some tools (possibly including a dh_pkgconfig) to do > this automatically; those tools could generate a pkgconfig:Depends > substvar for use in debian/control. Before starting on those tools, I'd > like to get some feedback on this idea. There's also <https://bugs.debian.org/548463>. I'd be happy to include such tool in dpkg itself. I think this is one of the current limitations we have in dpkg-dev compared to say rpm, which has many build-time dependency generators. > Does this seem like a reasonable approach? Yes. And, I'd rather see this down in dpkg-dev than in debhelper if possible. Thanks, Guillem
