[sponsor needed] libccd - Library for collision detection between convex shapes

[Jose Luis Rivero]

Hi all:

As part of our widely used robotics packages, I would like to propose a 
new addition, libccd[1]. It is a library for collision detection between 
convex shapes.

It is a dependency for several packages in ROS (like the arm navigation 
move-it), also used in the simulator Gazebo and in the physical engine 
DART. Upstream (Daniel Fiser) is responsive and we've been talking[2] 
about this submission, ABIs, etc.

The debian work for the latest version is in git.debian[1]. As usual, 
let me know if I've missed something.

The only weird point in the time is the name of libccd2 while version is 
1.5. This is because upstream is setting a soname = 2, so I just created 
the package name according. Let me know if this should be changed.

The patch for blends is short:

diff --git a/tasks/robotics-dev b/tasks/robotics-dev
index 263a47e..7d187bb 100644
--- a/tasks/robotics-dev
+++ b/tasks/robotics-dev
@@ -30,3 +30,5 @@ Depends: libsdformat-dev
  Depends: libconsole-bridge-dev

  Depends: libcomedi-dev, python-comedilib
+
+Depends: libccd-dev

Thanks.

[1] http://libccd.danfis.cz/
[2] https://github.com/danfis/libccd/issues/6
[3] 
http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=debian-science/packages/libccd.git;a=summary

-- 
Jose Luis Rivero <jrivero at osrfoundation.org>