The problem seems to be that the .la files are not correctly installed into the -dev package during package build. This can be easily fixed by applying the attached patch to the unpacked gdk-pixbuf-2.22.0 source tree:
You will then end up with a proper .deb package (e.g. libgdk-pixbuf2.0-dev_2.22.0-0ubuntu1_amd64.deb) which contains the correct files and can be installed as normal.
The problem seems to be that the .la files are not correctly installed into the -dev package during package build. This can be easily fixed by applying the attached patch to the unpacked gdk-pixbuf-2.22.0 source tree:
apt-get source libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0
cd gdk-pixbuf-2.22.0/
patch -p1 < ../gdkpixbuff.diff
debuild -b -uc -us
You will then end up with a proper .deb package (e.g. libgdk- pixbuf2. 0-dev_2. 22.0-0ubuntu1_ amd64.deb) which contains the correct files and can be installed as normal.