[Pkg-scicomp-devel] Bug#587736: frei0r-plugins: Missing dependency on libcv-dev

[Luca Bigliardi]

On Thu, Jul 01, 2010 at 11:44 AM, Olivier Aubert wrote:

Hi!

> Some frei0r filters, based on opencv, require classifier data files
> which are not present in libcv, but in libcv-dev.
> 
> For instance, trying to launch a pipeline involving frei0r-filter-water
> without installing libcv-dev will abort with:
> ERROR: Could not load classifier cascade /usr/share/opencv/haarcascades/haarcascade_frontalface_alt2.xml
> 
> Solution: add libcv-dev as a Depends:, or at least as a Recommends:

If a file is needed for normal usage of a library and not for develpment
purposes then it should not be in the "-dev" package.

http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-sharedlibs.html#s-sharedlibs-dev


Thank you for reporting this.

Luca



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