Bug#922584: [Help] Re: FTBFS against opencv 4.0.1 (exp)

[Adrian Bunk]

On Mon, Nov 23, 2020 at 05:49:42PM +0100, Andreas Tille wrote:
> Control: tags -1 help
> 
> Hi,
> 
> the configure step checks for the existence of opencv and only if
> available builds the executable limereg.  I found a (hackish) solution
> in Git[1] to convince configure that opencv is available.  However, the
> code tries to include cv.h which is not available any more.  I have no
> knowledge about opencv and thus I have no idea to proceed.  My only idea
> is to drop the limereg binary package and just keep the liblimereg
> packages alive.
> 
> Any help is welcome

[1] contains a patch from a Debian porter, but considering the facts 
that limereg already missed the current Debian stable bullseye and the 
comment from upstream (who is also the original Debian packager) in [2], 
removal from Debian might be a better option?

I do not know how limereg compares to other tools like for example
elastix (based on ITK) or registrationx (part of CMTK) or other tools,
but neither the upstream bug tracker nor the Debian BTS indicate that
there would be an active userbase who report bugs or complained that
limereg is not in bullseye.

>        Andreas.
>...

cu
Adrian

[1] https://github.com/RoelofBerg/limereg/issues/3
[2] https://github.com/RoelofBerg/limereg/issues/3#issuecomment-1296863979