Bug#933579: ITP: openvr -- openvr sdk

[Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>]

On Thu, Aug 01, 2019 at 02:23:21AM +0800, Andrew Lee (李健秋) wrote:
> Package: wnpp
> Severity: wishlist
> Owner: Andrew Lee (李健秋) <ajqlee@debian.org>
> 
> * Package name    : openvr
>   Version         : 1.4.18
>   Upstream Author : Valve Corporation
> * URL             : https://github.com/ValveSoftware/openvr
> * License         : Expat
>   Programming Lang: C
>   Description     : openvr sdk
> 
>  OpenVR is an API and runtime that allows access to VR hardware from
>  multiple vendors without requiring that applications have specific
>  knowledge of the hardware they are targeting. This repository is an
>  SDK that contains the API and samples. The runtime is under SteamVR
>  in Tools on Steam.

Can OpenVR work with any Open Source backend? (And do you intend to
package such a backend?) It appears to only work with SteamVR, which is
proprietary. If this only works with SteamVR or other proprietary
backends, or in general if Debian doesn't have any Open Source backend
for this, it'll have to go to contrib, not main.