[Pkg-phototools-devel] Bug#826166: Bug#826166: libgphoto2-dev: location of gphoto2-config is not in PATH

[Steve M. Robbins]

Hi,

I'm the debian maintainer of digikam and just ran into the same problem.

On Thu, 2 Jun 2016 20:43:58 -0300 "Herbert Fortes (hpfn)" <hpfn at ig.com.br> 
wrote:

> > I recon these files should be in /usr/bin unless I am missing something?
> >
> 
> It is about lintian tag[0] 'old-style-config-script'.
> 
> [0] - https://lintian.debian.org/tags/old-style-config-script.html

That link makes the following 3 suggestions.    I think you're referring to 
#3.  Please note that #3 begins with "after fixing every reverse depends ...."; 
as a reverse-depends maintainer, I'd have appreciated at least a note of this 
compatibility break.  :-)

Has any work been done with respect to a pkg-config replacement (#1, #2)?

Thanks,
-Steve

1. You should consider to move to pkg-config file and warn your user to not use 
this script, and open a bug upstream.

2. You should also consider to implement this file as a compatibility wrapper 
over pkg-config.

3. After fixing every reverse depends of your package and use pkg-config reverse 
depends makefile, you should consider to put this script, as a temporary 
convenience of your users, under /usr/lib/$DEB_HOST_MULTIARCH/$PACKAGE/bin 
where $DEB_HOST_MULTIARCH is the multi-arch triplet and $PACKAGE is the 
package name. You should also consider to add a NEWS.Debian entry.

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