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

Ólafur Jens Sigurðsson ojsbug at gmail.com
Tue Apr 29 15:44:11 UTC 2008


On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 02:06:03AM +0200, Rafael Laboissiere wrote:
> * 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

Well, not much of a discussion there, just a question with two
answeres that both say the same thing :-)

So it seems that the preferred way in debian is to have the symbolic
package depend on pkg-config.

Oli



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