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Re: Looking for a sponsor for some robotics related packages



Hi Jose,

On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 05:49:36PM +0100, Jose Luis Rivero wrote:
> >
> >     http://blends.debian.org/blends
> >
> 
> Got it, thanks. Do you that it could help new people like to write a
> minimal README on the repository explaining in a few steps how to
> make the correct changes to include new packages?

Well, I'm considering an extra FAQ section in the docs.  I guess you can
always write more and more documentation but users who should read will
always fail finding it. ;-)
 
> >>so I just "use the force" and follow my instinct.
> >
> >Valid apporach - but leaded to wrong result. ;-)
> >
> 
> That was completely expected, I have quite bad jedi skills :)
> 
> Thanks for the long explanation, indeed it helps me a lot to
> understand how it works. All makes sense to me. Just a little
> detail:
> 
> [snip]
> >...
> >OK, took over
> >
> >$ git diff
> >diff --git a/tasks/robotics b/tasks/robotics
> >index f7b7724..db50edf 100644
> >--- a/tasks/robotics
> >+++ b/tasks/robotics
> >@@ -207,3 +207,13 @@ WNPP: 706133
> >  Suggests: libcoin60-runtime, libvtk5.4
> >
> >  Suggests: octave, gnuplot
> >+
> >+Depends: console-bridge
> >+Homepage: https://github.com/ros/console_bridge
> >+Responsible: Jose Luis Rivero <jrivero@osrfoundation.org>
> >+License: BSD-3-clause
> >+Pkg-Description: Console Bridge Library
> >+ ROS-independent, pure CMake (i.e. non-catkin and non-rosbuild
> >+ package) that provides logging calls that mirror those found in
> >+ rosconsole, but for applications that are not necessarily using ROS.
> >+
> >
> >
> >Please note:  This assumes that the *binary* package will be named
> >console-bridge (also see below)!
> >
> 
> Which is wrong since console-bridge is a library, no
> "console-bridge" as such. console-bridge is different from the other
> packages since it has been already uploaded.s

Ahhh, I missed this since I was only checking not yet uploaded packages.
For packages in the archive you never need this longish text since
everything  is in UDD.

>  But I believe that, in
> the same way that you did for liburfdom we should add it as
> "Depends: libconsole-bridge-dev" in the corresponding
> tasks/robotics-dev, right?

Yes, that's correct and it is just pushed to Git that way.
 
> Thanks again Andreas.

Thanks for your work and please remember for your future work to
add you packages (by sending your sponsor or me a patch).

Kind regards

      Andreas. 

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