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 Not only does ROS distribute an outdated version (0.7.0 versus 0.8.0) but using the ROS library is also different from using the actual upstream library.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. Thanks! cheers, josch
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