Bug#728589: libdevmapper-dev: Missing dependency against libudev-dev

[Laurent Bigonville]

Le Mon, 4 Nov 2013 12:02:08 +0100,
Bastian Blank <waldi at debian.org> a écrit :

> On Sun, Nov 03, 2013 at 01:30:08PM +0100, Laurent Bigonville wrote:
> > The devmapper.pc file is declaring a "Requires.private" dependency
> > against libudev, but the package itself is not depending against
> > libudev-dev.
> 
> So it is not needed for dynamic linking.  No package in Debian is
> supposed to link statically against it.

Well the cryptsetup has an option to statically link the executable
against devmapper (but this is indeed not done ATM).

I opened this bug more for the correctness of the dependencies
(.private is meant to reduce the runtime dependencies, not the
build-time ones)

Cheers

Laurent Bigonville