[Bug 1523508]

[Nicholson]

Created attachment 121399
Only unquote --variable when it appears quoted

The change to unquote values in the --variable output broke users that
had shell special characters in the variable. Instead, only unquote if
the value starts with " or '. A larger fix to do a full unquote, split
and escaping like --cflags/--libs is possible, but that might break the
old semantics even further.

Add a new function, parse_package_variable(), to handle that logic.

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Title:
  Building xorg-gtest fails with new pkg-config

Status in pkg-config:
  Fix Released
Status in pkg-config package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  As per the pkg-config change of unquoting variables, building xorg-
  gtest (in compiz for example) fails.

  See more details in the linked upstream bug.

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