From: boris@codesynthesis.com   
      
   Package: libpq-dev   
   Version: 17.8-0+deb13u1   
      
   The Libs.private field in libpq.pc lists the following libraries:   
      
   -lpgcommon -lpgport -lssl -lgssapi_krb5 -lm -lldap   
      
   If we install libpq-dev and then try to link libpq.a respecting its .pc   
   file information, we get:   
      
   gcc ... /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpq.a -lpgcommon -lpgport -lgssapi_krb5   
   -lm /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libldap.a -lsasl2 /usr/lib/x86_64-   
   inux-gnu/liblber.a /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libssl.a /usr/lib/x   
   6_64-linux-gnu/libcrypto.a /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-   
   gnu/libz.a -lzstd -ldl -pthread   
   /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lpgcommon: No such file or directory   
   /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lpgport: No such file or directory   
   /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lgssapi_krb5: No such file or directory   
   /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lsasl2: No such file or directory   
   /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lzstd: No such file or directory   
      
   I am not sure if those libraries are unnecessary, should be unnecessary   
   (at least -lpgcommon -lpgport, by means of being included in libpq.a), or   
   libpq-dev should depend on the packages that contain these libraries (like   
   it does on libssl-dev).   
      
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