After installing pkgconf and libopenslide-dev in a fresh sid container: # pkg-config --libs openslide Package glib-2.0 was not found in the pkg-config search path. Perhaps you should add the directory containing `glib-2.0.pc' to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable Package 'glib-2.0', required by 'openslide', not found Package 'gio-2.0', required by 'openslide', not found Package 'gobject-2.0', required by 'openslide', not found Package 'cairo', required by 'openslide', not found Package 'libxml-2.0', required by 'openslide', not found Package 'libtiff-4', required by 'openslide', not found Package 'libopenjp2', required by 'openslide', not found Package 'libjpeg', required by 'openslide', not found Package 'libpng', required by 'openslide', not found Package 'zlib', required by 'openslide', not found Package 'libzstd', required by 'openslide', not found pkg-config is the supported way to determine how to link with OpenSlide, and pkg-config requires the .pc files mentioned in openslide.pc's Requires.private to exist, so libopenslide-dev isn't useful without the -dev packages that provide these files. By policy 3.5, libopenslide-dev must therefore depend on those packages. A couple such dependencies were added in #1146800; see previous discussion there.
Hello, Bug #1146883 in openslide reported by you has been fixed in the Git repository and is awaiting an upload. You can see the commit message below and you can check the diff of the fix at: https://salsa.debian.org/med-team/openslide/-/commit/8f14db51fb17fd2bb6d9362ca6d6f57f85d99251 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ d/control: provide complete libopenslide-dev dependencies. Closes: #1146883 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ (this message was generated automatically) -- Greetings https://bugs.debian.org/1146883
We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
openslide, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive.
A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.
Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed. If you
have further comments please address them to 1146883@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.
Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Étienne Mollier <emollier@debian.org> (supplier of updated openslide package)
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Format: 1.8
Date: Sun, 06 Sep 2026 20:25:55 +0200
Source: openslide
Architecture: source
Version: 4.0.1+dfsg-2
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Debian Med Packaging Team <debian-med-packaging@lists.alioth.debian.org>
Changed-By: Étienne Mollier <emollier@debian.org>
Closes: 1146814 1146883
Changes:
openslide (4.0.1+dfsg-2) unstable; urgency=medium
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* d/rules: simplify and complement formats fetching.
This change adds support for fetching specifications for argos, dicom,
huron and zeiss formats, and makes the listing a little more readable,
with less duplicates in the d/rules file.
* d/openslide-formats.3.xml: add support for new formats.
This change adds support to inject the argos, dicom, huron and zeiss
formats into the xsl template.
* d/openslide-formats.3: refresh the manual page to openslide 4.0.1
and also document support for argos, dicom, huron and zeiss file
formats. (Closes: #1146814)
* d/control: update file formats support list.
The change includes a subtle wording change in order to make the delta
between the package description and the exhaustive list of supported
format less problematic.
* d/rules: ensure openslide-format(3) version consistency.
This change implements a check at an early stage of the package
construction, in order to make sure that there is no delta between the
new upstream version and its shipped documentation.
* d/rules: provide a clean-man target to clean things up.
This is a useful shortcut to clear artifacts downloaded during a
refresh of openslide-formats(3) manual.
* d/control: provide complete libopenslide-dev dependencies.
(Closes: #1146883)
* d/t/run-pkgconf: new autopkgtest.
This change introduces, and enables via d/t/control, the script
run-pkgconf that ensures the list of dependencies of the package
libopenslide-dev is complete.
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