+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #565572 +++ I'm developing an app with xmlrpc-c, and seeing that there are .pc files provided in the -devel subpackage, I use pkgconfig for detecting the libraries it provides. If my users then try to build my app on another distribution, it won't work because the .pc files aren't part of their xmlrpc-c packages, because it doesn't appear to be part of the upstream build. I can't find anything in the Fedora package that warns me against depending on the .pc files, either.
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pkgconfig files are generated using upstream build script, as provided by upstream source release. I don't see any reason why we shouldn't install them. It's not Fedora problem that other distributions don't install pkgconfig files for xmlrpc-c. Closing as WONTFIX.
The upstream build scripts are patched as part of the package build, though, and that's where these are being added.