openni package for Debian

[Cosimo Alfarano]

On 31/05/11 03:49, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
> Ah, cool, so we have an uploader :)  I'm just a DM.  I'm not sure about
> Cosimo.

I'm a DD.

BTW, update to the pkgs status:

I tried yesterday the three repos, they worked.
I just pushed a couple of patches to fix small (but necessary) things.

I just realized that we need to fix the .ini file for Kinect, I had to
change "InputFormat=1" which was commented, to make it work.

Also, udev rules, does anybody know if we need OWNER="root" or it can be
"xxx" as set by upstream?

Next steps:

- Enable Mono in openni so that it can be re-enabled in NITE.
  - the Makefile for NITE & OpenNI relies on the presence of the mono
    exec to compile mono, which means that in a chroot env it compiles
    without problems, but when build outside in an env which has mono
    installed it will fail.

    The reason of the failure is that the upstream install.sh script do
    not detach the build from the (post) installation process.
    As per my mono understanding (noob) we need to compile GAC in
    postinst, while create the DLL at build time. Until we split this
    behaviour (should be easy) we cannot build mono package and both
    openni and NITE are inherently broken.


- Re-enable quilt, so that we can patch the Samples to be able to find
  their XML in a different location than "../../../../Data", and
  package it as openni-samples, the same for nite and kinect IIRC.

- Fix all the lintian complaints and the .ini :)

- Fix the SONAME and .so versioning issue, it depends on the email I
  still have to send to upstream about their build system :)
  So far this is not a real problem, until we'll have more than one
  version we need to be able to link at the same time.

After that we might be able to consider an upload to unstable, IMHO.

cheers,
 C.