Bug#450949: libwebkitgtk-dev: pkg-config file doesn't include gtk, glib or gobject Requires

Mike Hommey mh at glandium.org
Thu Feb 28 19:31:50 UTC 2008


On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 08:16:36PM +0100, Enrico Tröger wrote:
> On Sat, 15 Dec 2007 11:45:33 +0100, Mike Hommey <mh at glandium.org> wrote:
> 
> > severity 450949 wishlist
> > thanks
> > 
> > On Mon, Nov 12, 2007 at 05:16:46PM +0100, Tom Parker wrote:
> > > Package: libwebkitgtk-dev
> > > Version: 0~svn26044-1
> > > Severity: normal
> > > 
> > > The header files for webkit rely on gtk, glib and gobject stuff, yet
> > > there isn't a "Requires" header for these in the .pc
> > 
> > The main issue, i.e. missing dependencies on libgtk2.0-dev and
> > libglib2.0-dev packages will be fixed with release 0~svn27674-2.
> > 
> > Unfortunately, qmake doesn't support filling Requires in pkgconfig
> > files, so it is going to be difficult.
> But the "Requires" header is already present in the upstream
> webkit.pc.in.
> See
> http://trac.webkit.org/projects/webkit/browser/trunk/WebKit/gtk/webkit.pc.in
> 
> Another strange thing: why did you rename the pkg-config file to
> "WebKitGtk.pc"? configure scripts of programs(e.g. midori) look for
> webkit-1.0 (webkit-1.0.pc) which is the official (upstream) name of the
> pc file.

Because the latest packaged version is 29752, and you're showing me
something that has been changed in 29909.

Mike





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