Package: libvte-dev Version: 1:0.11.15-3 Severity: important Tags: upstream
Hi folks, So, I suppose most of you have read <http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2005/11/msg00016.html> about problems with packages depending on libraries that they don't use, particularly as relates to a potential libfreetype transition. One library that currently exposes freetype (and other libs) in its pkg-config .pc file, but shouldn't, is libvte. Please consider (and forward upstream) the attached patch which moves all of the library dependencies of libvte into the Requires.private and Libs.private variables in vte.pc, so that they aren't used on Debian except for static linking. It also adds a versioned build-dependency on pkg-config; though perhaps this change should be made in gnome-common instead? Also, please note that since September 2003, FreeType has supported pkg-config. It might be worthwhile to clean up the configure script to use pkg-config for handling freetype, unless upstream thinks it's important to continue supporting FreeType2 << 2.1.5. Thanks, -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.org/
diff -u vte-0.11.15/debian/changelog vte-0.11.15/debian/changelog
--- vte-0.11.15/debian/changelog
+++ vte-0.11.15/debian/changelog
@@ -1,3 +1,13 @@
+vte (1:0.11.15-3.1) unstable; urgency=low
+
+ * Non-maintainer upload.
+ * Fix vte.pc to not export freetype and other libs as part of the interface
+ used for shared linking; expose these only in Required.private and
+ Libs.private instead.
+ * Build-depend on pkg-config (>= 0.18) for these new fields.
+
+ -- Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Wed, 23 Nov 2005 02:03:03 -0800
+
vte (1:0.11.15-3) unstable; urgency=high
* Force regeneration of the python bindings by removing python/vte.c.
only in patch2:
unchanged:
--- vte-0.11.15.orig/vte.pc.in
+++ vte-0.11.15/vte.pc.in
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@
Name: vte
Description: Vte terminal widget.
Version: @VERSION@
-Requires: @NEEDEDPACKAGES@
-Libs: -L${libdir} -lvte @FT2_LIBS@ @OTHERLIBS@
+Requires.private: @NEEDEDPACKAGES@
+Libs: -L${libdir} -lvte
+Libs.private: @FT2_LIBS@ @OTHERLIBS@
Cflags: -I${includedir} @FT2_CFLAGS@ @OTHERCFLAGS@
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