Dependency packages in Debian can be detected with dpkg-query -S

Given a list of needed pkg-config (*.pc) packages for compilation, under Debian, the following can be used to detect the packages that get the necessary packages that provide them:

dpkg -S pkgconfig/{package1.pc,package2.pc,package3.pc,...}

The current list of needed pkg-config packages (taken from a glance at the Makefile) is:

• cairo.pc
• cairo-xlib.pc
• gdk-pixbuf-xlib-2.0.pc
• imlib2.pc
• pango.pc
• pangocairo.pc
• renderproto.pc
• x11.pc
• xfr.pc
• xinerama.pc
• xrender.pc