Bug#802032: gazebo: Don't depend on robot-player-dev (libgazebo5-dev)

[Paul Gevers]

Hi all,

On Sat, 17 Oct 2015 07:32:15 +0200 Paul Gevers <elbrus at debian.org> wrote:
> I want to get rid of the player package in Debian in its current state. To
> achieve that I filled a request for the removal of player¹, which is correctly
> not processed yet. Your package libgazebo5-dev depends on one of its binary
> packages. As libgazebo5-dev is only a -dev package, you can safely remove the
> dependency. I checked that contrary to the changelog, the binaries build from
> gazebo don't actually build in player support, see the build log (amd64):
> 
> - -- checking for modules 'playercore>=3.0;playerc++;playerwkb'
> - --   package 'playercore>=3.0' not found
> - --   package 'playerc++' not found
> - --   package 'playerwkb' not found
> - -- 	Player not found, gazebo plugin for player will not be built.
> 
> and later:
> 
> - -- BUILD WARNINGS
> - -- 	OpenAL not found, audio support will be disabled.
> - -- 	DART not found, for dart physics engine option, please install libdart-core4-dev.
> - -- 	Player not found, gazebo plugin for player will not be built.
> - -- 	Oculus Rift support will be disabled.
> - -- END BUILD WARNINGS
> 
> So I ask you to drop this dependency. The alternative is that you help the
> maintainer (should be in CC of this bug) of player to get the package in
> shape. It needs quite some love.
> 
> You can find my trivial debdiff patch attached. Just so you are aware, I am
> considering to NMU gazebo just to fix this issue if this is not handled in a
> timely manner. (This is not intended to sound hostile, I am just doing QA for
> Debian. I have no feeling whatsoever for either player of gazebo.)

> ¹ https://bugs.debian.org/801898

I see there is a new version of gazebo, but no response to my request to
drop the Recommends on robot-player-dev. I heard from Graham that maybe
not all people from debian-science are reading the
debian-science-maintainers mail list, so I post here now. Could we
please agree on the way how to make Debian slightly better (I propose to
remove player).

And for your knowledge, the maintainer of player agrees (off-line) that
player can be removed from Debian for now.

Paul

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