libkface and new opencv

[Tobias C. Berner]

Hi Steve

Yes, please feel free to go ahead with this.


mfg Tobias

On 7 May 2018 at 13:15, Steve Wills <swills at freebsd.org> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Yep, that's one of the things the patch I've been working on does:
>
> https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/attachment.cgi?id=193009&action=diff
>
> It also enables opencv3 support in digikam-kde4, so I'm hoping it's
> effectively the same. If you're good with that, then I'll go ahead and add
> the DEPRECATED and EXPRIATION_DATE to libkface.
>
> Thanks,
> Steve
>
> On 05/07/2018 01:05, Tobias C. Berner wrote:
>
>> 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 <mailto:
>> 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
>>     <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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