From: Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@err.no>
Date: Sun, 23 Mar 2008 19:46:08 +0000 (+0100)
Subject: 2008-03-23  Stepan Kasal  <skasal@redhat.com>
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2008-03-23  Stepan Kasal  <skasal@redhat.com>

      * pkg-config.1: Document "Requires.private" and recommend it
      for libraries.  Freedesktop #13188
---

diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 4ddad30..31498ef 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,5 +1,8 @@
 2008-03-23  Stepan Kasal  <skasal@redhat.com>
 
+	* pkg-config.1: Document "Requires.private" and recommend it
+	for libraries.  Freedesktop #13188
+
 	* pkg-config.1: Fix a few typos--add two omitted .TP tags and two
 	omitted full stops; and empty lines do influence the formatting in
 	nroff.
diff --git a/pkg-config.1 b/pkg-config.1
index 2531475..378617c 100644
--- a/pkg-config.1
+++ b/pkg-config.1
@@ -357,6 +357,19 @@ checks. You may only mention the same package one time on the
 .I "Requires:"
 line. If the version of a package is unspecified, any version will
 be used with no checking.
+TP
+.I Requires.private:
+A list of packages required by this package. The difference from
+.I Requires
+is that the packages listed under
+.I Requires.private
+are not taken into account when a flag list is computed for
+dynamically linked executable (i.e., when \-\-static was not
+specified).  In the situation where each .pc file corresponds to a
+library,
+.I Requires.private
+shall be used exclusively to specify the dependencies between the
+libraries.
 .TP
 .I "Conflicts:"
 This optional line allows \fIpkg-config\fP to perform additional