Deprecating and shutting down pkg-config?

[Simon Josefsson]

Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen-YAMvcpje2t0 at public.gmane.org> writes:

> Hi folks,
>
> pkg-config is very much in maintenance mode, and a pretty low one at
> that.  There are some alternative implementations such as pkgconf that
> are more actively maintained and that has replaced pkg-config in both
> Debian and Fedora and presumably other distributions as well.
>
> Is it time to declare pkg-config dead, point at pkgconf as the successor
> and move on?  Any reasons not to?

I suppose some people prefer to use a GPL-based pkg-config.

I've ran into situations where the implementations differs and I
couldn't argue it was a bug in either pkg-config or pkgconf so never
reported it, but cannot recall the details.

It seems pkgconf want to get rid of pkg.m4 from their repository, and
there are some useful patches to be made to that file so maybe we can
fix these things in pkg-config to have it as the home of the file?  See
https://github.com/pkgconf/pkgconf/pull/369

I'm happy to volonteer as (co-)maintainer to keep it in minimal
life-support mode indefinitely, to have a good home for pkg.m4 which is
widely used.  Version control sources seems to have fixes for reported
bugs, and there are many open issues and merge requests to prune.  A new
release could be a first step.

/Simon
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