Bug#989958: libopencv-*-dev: Missing pkg-config file (.pc)

[Jochen Sprickerhof]

Hi Alejandro,

* Alejandro Colomar (man-pages) <alx.manpages at gmail.com> [2021-07-03 19:13]:
>It seems that they decided long ago to drop support for pkg-config
>files.  See
><https://github.com/opencv/opencv/issues/20269#event-4970006284> and
><https://github.com/opencv/opencv/issues/13154>
>
>Their only response is "consider using cmake's `find_package()`", which
>is not an option for me, and BTW not an option also in many other
>important projects.

I talked to them and the agreed to accept patches if the pkg-config 
files are generated automatically. Would you be interested to provide a 
patch? There is some code in PCL for this you could borrow, maybe.

>What should we do about it?  Maintain our pkg-config files in Debian?

I think that would be to big of a patch.

Cheers Jochen
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