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

[Alejandro Colomar (man-pages)]

Hi Jochen,

On 7/21/21 5:32 PM, Jochen Sprickerhof wrote:
> 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.

Hmmm, I'd like to, but I have zero idea of cmake (I guess they want to 
autogenerate it with cmake), so I'm not sure I could do that.

> 
>> What should we do about it?  Maintain our pkg-config files in Debian?
> 
> I think that would be to big of a patch.

Yes.  What is Fedora doing?  Do you know?

> 
> Cheers Jochen


Cheers,

Alex


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