[Pkg-gnutls-maint] Bug#375815: libgnutls-dev: libgnutls-config --libs shouldn't include -ltasn1 -lgcrypt -lgpg-error

[Samuel Thibault]

Package: libgnutls-dev
Version: 1.4.0-2
Severity: wishlist

Hi,

There are spurious dependencies in the output of libgnutls-config
--libs:

-L/usr/lib -lgnutls -L/usr/lib -ltasn1 -lgcrypt -lgpg-error

-ltasn1 -lgcrypt -lgpg-error are _not_ needed in --libs (since the
gnutls _interface_ doesn't need functions from these libraries) and just
bring unneeded dependencies. They should be used only for linking
libgnutls.so itself, and put in libgnutls-config --libs --static (for
static linking).

Samuel

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Versions of packages libgnutls-dev depends on:
ii  libc6-dev [libc-dev]          2.3.6-15   GNU C Library: Development Librari
ii  libgcrypt11-dev               1.2.2-1    LGPL Crypto library - development 
ii  libgnutls13                   1.4.0-2    the GNU TLS library - runtime libr
ii  liblzo-dev                    1.08-3     data compression library (old vers
ii  libopencdk8-dev [libopencdk8- 0.5.7-2    Open Crypto Development Kit (OpenC
ii  libtasn1-3-dev                0.3.4-2    Manage ASN.1 structures (developme
ii  zlib1g-dev                    1:1.2.3-11 compression library - development

libgnutls-dev recommends no packages.

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