COLLADA-related packages location (was: Re: [collada-dom] branch master updated (b58c9b1 -> 2b8de90))

[Leopold Palomo-Avellaneda]

El Dimarts, 13 d'octubre de 2015, a les 07:24:08, Rene Engelhard va escriure:
> Hi,
> 
> On Tue, Oct 13, 2015 at 03:27:15AM +0000, Wookey wrote:
> > This is an automated email from the git hooks/post-receive script.
> > 
> > wookey pushed a change to branch master
> > in repository collada-dom.
> 
> I just happened to see other the other commits yesterday.
> 
> Given COLLADA is 3D assets etc, wouldn't it be better at pkg-multimedia?
> opencollada and collada2gltf are there, too.
> 
> (Yes, I see pycollada is also at debian-science... - but that is "just"
> python bindings. Cc'ed anyway)
> 
> Not that I want to force anyone to anything, just wondering.

Rene,

that I created that Repo on February 2015. Wookey didn't know the existence of 
that Repos till last weekend.

I created that repo under debian-science because:
- it's a dependency of a debian-science package (suite, ROS)
- it's the team that I mainly work on and I get better support
- I didn't know that pkg-multimedia had any interest in that package.

The history of that package is a pain. Sébastien Barthélémy began to working 
on in 2010 [1]. He packaged it and also minizip [2]. But as minizip came from 
a source that was in debian (zip)[3], hhe had some problems (collada-dom needs 
minizip). The question was that till jessie, minizip was not in debian [4]. 
Four years later.

I don't know personally Sébastien Barthélémy, but I can image how frustrating 
could be for him work a lot in collada-dom and finally not see that package in 
debian.

I would prefer not move collada-dom. I'm not in multimedia team and I have not 
seen any interest from pkg-multimedia about that package in the last years, 
although I understand your propose.

Best regards,

Leopold

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[1] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=589152
[2] https://lists.debian.org/debian-mentors/2010/07/msg00217.html
[3] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=574798
[4] http://metadata.ftp-master.debian.org/changelogs//main/m/minizip/minizip_1.1-7_changelog

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