Bug 485667

This is partially a result of pkgconfig update now showing Requires.private. This bug has hit me as well:
http://buildsys.rpmfusion.org/logs/fedora-10-rpmfusion_nonfree/2806-sdlmame-0130-0.4.0129u4.fc10/ppc/build.log

Does the bug appeared with a recent pkgconfig update ?

Yes, it did. At least that's what I made out of the build logs.

Also, please note that I fixed the sdlmame build by adding dbus-devel to BR, but you can reproduce the issue easily by removing it.

(In reply to comment #4)
> Also, please note that I fixed the sdlmame build by adding dbus-devel to BR,
> but you can reproduce the issue easily by removing it.

So why didn't you fixed your build with adding dbus-devel as BR of sdlmane instead ? (Same for Michel's package).

Because it never needed it in the first place.

(In reply to comment #0)
> Description of problem:
> GConf2-devel's gconf-2.0.pc file declares a private dependency on dbus-1:
> Requires.private: ORBit-2.0 dbus-1
> 
> but does not depend on dbus-devel, which provides it.

The real question is, does compiling an application that links against GConf libraries require ORBit and dbus headers to succeed? If not, then these dependencies are bogus and should be removed.

In my case, the compiled application does not depend on ORBit and dbus, but I'm not sure whether this holds generally.

Either way, GConf2-devel should either depend on ORBit and dbus, or stop declaring a dependency on them in the .pc file.

see https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=224148#c24

Is there any conclusion what should be actually done? Any solution concerning gconf2 is better than randomly adding BR: dbus-devel in packages.

It seems to be fixed in Rawhide already, but not in any F10 update.  GConf2-devel in Rawhide requires pkgconfig(dbus-1).

It is fixed in Rawhide due to the fact that rpm there picks up pkgconfig requires (or provides, I'm not sure) automatically. F-10 needs to be fixed the old way.

More than half a year and no response by the official maintainer?

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