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

[Herbert Fortes]

Hi,


Em Dom, 2016-06-26 às 10:23 -0500, Steve M. Robbins escreveu:
> 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.
> 

I tried to stop packaging these scripts months 
ago. But maybe KDE team only was aware about
that. I am sorry. Digikam uses pkg-config and 
libgphoto2 has a .pc file for long time.

If you need the old-style-config-script and has to
use the old path, I can manage it for you. But please,
move to pkg-config.

I am waiting your response.



regards,
-- Herbert Parentes Fortes Neto (hpfn)
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