[Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#477736: octave-symbolic_1.0.5-1(sparc/unstable): missing dependencies

[Rafael Laboissiere]

* Thomas Weber <thomas.weber.mail at gmail.com> [2008-04-28 12:13]:

> > Ginac now uses pkg-config to check for its library. Should we add this
> > as a general dependency to octave-pkg-dev or the specific packages that
> > need it (I don't know which packages these are, though)?
> 
> I went ahead and added pkg-config as a dependency to octave-pkg-dev. We
> can revert the change later, but for now I want to get those bugs fixed.

My preference is to add pkg-config to Build-Depends only to those pacakges
that need it, not in octave-pkg-dev.

There was recently a similar discussion in debian-devel, starting at
http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2008/03/msg00755.html

-- 
Rafael