Robotics simulation package (orocos?, stage?)

[Anton Gladky]

Hello,


On 06/02/2013 09:56 AM, Parménides GV wrote:
> Hello to everybody,
> 
>  I saw using "aptitude show science-robotics" that the recommended
> package for robotics simulation is robot-player. I installed it, and I
> was surprised that the man doc date is May 2009!!! I've also seen that
> the project has been moved to github, and that it even got renamed to
> "Stage". Can anybody package this new project?

You can contact to a maintainer of this package [1] and ask him about
that or (better) help him to do this work. The package does not belong
to debian-science team, actually.

>  On the other side, I've seen that "orocos" packages are in the
> recommended section from science-robotics. They are not present in
> Debian repositories!!! What happens with this? Why is it "recommended"
> even if I cannot download it from repositories? I've seen
> http://blends.alioth.debian.org/science/tasks/robotics.ru.html and I
> understand we may not have time to fix that, but my worry is that I did
> a Google search in this mailing list archives and I didn't get *any*
> result containing the word "orocos". Why is this possible? I thought I
> would see somebody who was willing, at least in the far past, to upload
> an orocos package to Debian official repositories, so that if I were
> interested in continuing that job I could start in some point different
> from scratch.

The package should have somebody, who is interested to maintain the
package. Otherwise the package is not be able to exist in Debian. If you
()or somebody else) prepare the orocos-package ready to be uploaded into
the official archive, it gets the chance to be sponsored into the main
repository.

>  Another thing I would like to know, different from these two issues, is
> if there is any irc room anywhere for this Debian Science group.

#debian-science on irc.debian.org

But I think, that the serious topics should be discussed on mailing list.

>  Thanks for all your job, and sorry if I was a bit hard with my words.
> I've never written to a mailing list, but I'm sure this won't be the
> last time ;)

Please, do not forget, that Debian is a voluntary project and as any
other similar project lacks manpower.

Best regards,

Anton

[1] http://qa.debian.org/developer.php?login=jamuraa@debian.org


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