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[Kevin Kofler]

Jesse Keating wrote:
> This is due to packages having their .pc file in the base package rather
> than a -devel subpackage.  There is a review guideline for this ( tail
> end of http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/ReviewGuidelines ) but I
> couldn't find the matching Guideline entry so it's not surprising that
> this could have been missed.

Well, there are cases where pkg-config is used at runtime, which is why the
MUST was changed to a SHOULD and the "The placement of pkgconfig(.pc) files
depends on their usecase, and this is usually for development purposes"
wording is now used. Talk to the FPC folks if you need to know more about
this issue. In the cases where it is indeed used at runtime, requiring
pkgconfig is actually the right thing to do (but requiring various -devel
packages isn't - if that's what's happpening, something needs to be done
about it).

        Kevin Kofler