pkg-config-0.21, Requires.private items Required even when not using --static

[Rex Dieter]

Tom Parker wrote:
> Rex Dieter wrote:
> 
>>> Shouldn't Libs.private and Requires.private be ignored and not be 
>>> used when/if one doesn't use
>>> $ pkg-config --static
>>> ?

>> Searching bugzilla, found this issue to be already reported,
>> http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4738
>> with patch supplied.  Sadly, the original report is over a year old.
> 
> 
> Requires.private is also needed for --cflags, as the library headers for 
> package foo often require the headers for bar (indeed, that's half the 
> point of Requires.private).

If foo (always) requires headers from bar, then shouldn't it use
Requires: bar
not
Requires.private: bar
??
I thought the purpose of *.private is for items required for static linking?


-- Rex