libkface and new opencv

[Tobias C. Berner]

Hi there

We could just remove the kface support from digikam-kde4.


mfg Tobias

On 7 May 2018 at 02:17, Steve Wills <swills at freebsd.org> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I've been working on the update of graphics/opencv to the latest version
> (3.4.1) and have run into an issue with the update to opencv breaking
> libkface. See:
>
> https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=210505
>
> Looking at libkface, I see that it doesn't seem to be maintained any more.
> It seems like digikam stopped using it, and that was the only thing using
> it. I also noticed Fedora (and possibly others) have stopped packaging it
> because of this same issue and the fact that it doesn't seem to be
> maintained any more.
>
> The patch for opencv changes digicam to use opencv directly rather than
> using libkface, but I'm not familiar enough with digicam to be confident
> that this provides the same functionality.
>
> I would like input from some kde at FreeBSD.org person to figure out if this
> change is OK and we can deprecate libkface or if we need to figure out how
> to fix libkface.
>
> Thanks,
> Steve
>
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