packaging ROS bfl

[Leopold Palomo-Avellaneda]

El Dimecres, 19 d'octubre de 2016, a les 09:31:40, Johannes Schauer va 
escriure:
> Hi,
> 
> I intend to package ROS bfl but have several questions for the ROS people
> among you.
> 
> ROS bfl (http://wiki.ros.org/bfl) seems to be a copy of orocos bfl
> (http://www.orocos.org/bfl). Not only does ROS distribute an outdated
> version (0.7.0 versus 0.8.0) but using the ROS library is also different
> from using the actual upstream library. In ROS you say:
> 
> pkg_check_modules(BFL REQUIRED bfl)
> 
> while for the upstream project you say:
> 
> pkg_check_modules(BFL REQUIRED orocos-bfl)
> 
> Intuitively, I'd rather package the actual upstream package instead of the
> ROS version but there are several issues with that:
> 
>  - ROS packages will require the library named bfl and not orocos-bfl
>  - ROS packages might require version 0.7.0 instead of 0.8.0
>  - and I don't see a way to easily find out how many reverse dependencies
> ROS bfl actually has, so how many packages would be potentially affected -
> the actual upstream might be dead (seven commits in the past five years)
> while ROS bfl might continue to be maintained by ROS (but I don't know that
> for sure either)
> 
> Funnily, the science-robotics meta package Suggests orocos-bfl even though
> that package is not in Debian.

Josch,

orocos-bfl is packaged (not perfect), but not officially. See:

https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/debian-science/packages/orocos/bfl.git/

The project is not dead, but AFAIK upstream is the orocos team, specially 
Klaas Gadeyne. However, I guess that is not very active.

Leopold

PS you know that you are _always_ welcome to contribute to the Robotic 
packages ;-)


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