[Pkg-gnutls-maint] Bug#375815: Dropping indirect dependencies from libgnutls-config --libs

Andreas Metzler ametzler at downhill.at.eu.org
Fri Jun 30 16:47:09 UTC 2006


Martijn van Oosterhout wrote:
[making foo-config a wrapper around pkg-config]

> If you started using pkg-config you'd have introduced a
> build dependancy on a GPL'd program in a BSD licenced package, not
> exactly a good idea.
[...]

That is something I hadn't thought about, gnutls is LGPL. Thanks.
cu andreas
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