libkface and new opencv

[Steve Wills]

Thanks, will do.

Steve

On 05/08/18 15:15, Tobias C. Berner wrote:
> 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 
> <mailto: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
>     <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> <mailto: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>
>              <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
> 
> 
>