Work needed, how you can help!

Jesse Keating jkeating at redhat.com
Sun Dec 7 21:38:28 UTC 2008


On Sun, 2008-12-07 at 22:34 +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote:
> 
> 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).

That's why I said "ensure proper placement of them based on the
review guideline." and the guideline explains the proper placement.

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Jesse Keating
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