Re: libdlib-dev: find_package (dlib) fails

[Ghislain Vaillant <ghisvail@gmail.com>]

On Sun, 04 Sep 2016 11:50:02 -0400 Greg Sharp <gregsharp.geo@yahoo.com> 
wrote:
> Package: libdlib-dev
> Version: 18.18-1+b1
> Severity: normal
>
> The dlib.cmake supplied by debian cannot be used to configure a project.  Given
> the following CMakeLists.txt file:
>
> cmake_minimum_required (VERSION 3.5)
> find_package (dlib)
>
> Yields the following error:
>
> CMake Error at /usr/lib/cmake/dlib/dlib.cmake:76 (message):
>   The imported target "dlib::dlib" references the file
>
>      "/usr/lib/libdlib.a"
>
>   but this file does not exist.  Possible reasons include:
>
>   * The file was deleted, renamed, or moved to another location.
>
>   * An install or uninstall procedure did not complete successfully.
>
>   * The installation package was faulty and contained
>
>      "/usr/lib/cmake/dlib/dlib.cmake"
>
>   but not all the files it references.
>
> Call Stack (most recent call first):
>   /usr/lib/cmake/dlib/dlibConfig.cmake:35 (include)
>   CMakeLists.txt:2 (find_package)
>
>
> -- Configuring incomplete, errors occurred!

This is quite a biggy. Please ensure that your -dev packages work as
intended. Some autopkgtest for it would be warmly welcome. A library
package with non-working discovery should be higher severity IMO.

I would have offered to help, but your packaging setup is highly
non-standard (Github, non-sourceful tree). You might want to consider
joining a packaging team such as Debian Science and host your work
there. This way, it would be easier for your rdepends to collaborate
with you.

cc-ing the team's mailing list.

Ghis