Control: tags -1 + confirmed On Wed, 2021-12-01 at 11:06 +0100, Helmut Grohne wrote: > Control: tags -1 - moreinfo > > Hi Adam, > > On Tue, Nov 30, 2021 at 08:25:57PM +0000, Adam D. Barratt wrote: > > What's the potential impact of the change? Is "curl-config -- > > configure" > > consumed by anything, other than human eyeballs? > > curl-config is mainly meant for machine consumption. It kinda is a > predecessor of pkg-config. > > Preconditions to be affected: > * You must perform a build of a software using one of the > libcurl*-*-dev packages. > * Your build must not use pkg-config (very uncommon), but rather use > curl-config. > * Your build consumes curl-config --cflags (roughly equivalent to > pkg-config --cflags libcurl). > > As such I think that the number of affected users is fairly small > (due to the requirement of not using pkg-config). >
Thanks for the detailed explanation. Please go ahead. Regards, Adam
