Bug#958028: libopencv-highgui4.2: Please build highgui with Qt support

[Sebastian Schmidt]

Package: libopencv-highgui4.2
Version: 4.2.0+dfsg-6
Severity: wishlist

Hi,

OpenCV supports[1] a new Qt UI with some additional features missing
from the Gtk UI. I’ve noticed that -DWITH_QT=OFF is set explicitly in
debian/rules. Is there a strong reason to not build against Qt, and if
not, could this be turned on?

Thanks!

Sebastian

1: https://docs.opencv.org/master/dc/d46/group__highgui__qt.html

-- System Information:
Debian Release: bullseye/sid
  APT prefers unstable-debug
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'testing-debug'), (500, 'stable-debug'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental-debug'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 5.4.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_WARN, TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US:en (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages libopencv-highgui4.2 depends on:
ii  libc6                   2.30-4
ii  libcairo2               1.16.0-4
ii  libgcc-s1 [libgcc-s1]   10-20200402-1
ii  libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0      2.40.0+dfsg-3
ii  libglib2.0-0            2.64.1-1
ii  libgtk-3-0              3.24.17-1
ii  libopencv-core4.2       4.2.0+dfsg-6
ii  libopencv-imgcodecs4.2  4.2.0+dfsg-6
ii  libopencv-imgproc4.2    4.2.0+dfsg-6
ii  libopencv-videoio4.2    4.2.0+dfsg-6
ii  libstdc++6              10-20200402-1

libopencv-highgui4.2 recommends no packages.

libopencv-highgui4.2 suggests no packages.

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