Bug#833300: closed by Michael Biebl <biebl at debian.org> (Re: Bug#833300: libgtksourceview2.0-dev: Please depend on libpng-dev)

[Ximin Luo]

Michael Biebl:
> Am 03.08.2016 um 02:24 schrieb Ximin Luo:
>> Debian Bug Tracking System:
>>> This is an automatic notification regarding your Bug report
>>> which was filed against the libgtksourceview2.0-dev package:
>>>
>>> #833300: libgtksourceview2.0-dev: Please depend on libpng-dev
>>>
>>> It has been closed by Michael Biebl <biebl at debian.org>.
>>>
>>> Their explanation is attached below along with your original report.
>>> If this explanation is unsatisfactory and you have not received a
>>> better one in a separate message then please contact Michael Biebl <biebl at debian.org> by
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>>>
>>
>> Hi Michael,
>>
>> Your explanation is insufficient - it does not communicate to readers why this is not a bug.
> 
> It's not a bug in gtksourceview-2.0.pc because that file does not
> declare a dependency on libpng. I've even copied the contents of that
> file to make that clear.
> 

It's really unclear to me why this means "there is no bug". The logical jump here is too far, can you explain better please?

You should understand that most readers have less in-depth context about this program than you, so it is harder for other people to make "logical jumps" that might seem obvious to you.

>> Why do you think pkg-config exits with error code 1, when libpng-dev is not installed?
> 
> You need to check that locally on your system. Run pkg-config with the
> --debug flag and you should see where it exits.
> 

I did run it with the debug flag, and it exited exactly after trying to find libpng-dev. Although I pasted the original command line wrong in my first email, I've attached the full log as a separate file.

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