[Pkg-scicomp-devel] Bug#525023: libcv-dev: circular dependency with libcvaux-dev and libhighgui-dev

[Filippo Giunchedi]

On Thu, Jan 07, 2010 at 05:12:10PM +0900, Nobuhiro Iwamatsu wrote:
> If user wants to use highgui, application does not need include cv.h.
> user need include highgui.h only.
> 
> OK. For correspondence to be possible in Debian side, we provide all
> library (libcvaux and libhighgui)
> in one package (libcv and -dev package).
> Or we return this problem.
> As other methods, we prepare patch for pkg-config file of
> highgui/cvaux to Upstream.
> 
> How do you think about this?
> A library and a header file are divided into some, but I think that it
> is a problem that there is only one pkg-config file.

sounds good to me, let's hear upstream opinion on this.

After the split applications which were relying on opecv to drag in highgui
and cvaux will break and will need to be adapted to check explicitly, not
really a problem but should be properly handled/announced.

thanks,
filippo
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