Dear Peter and Dima,
Sorry for the delay. Somehow I did not receive any mails sent to
1006621@bugs.debian.org (will subscribe), thus I only now noticed your
conversation after accidentally revisiting the bug page.
Good to meet you too, Peter!
First of all, regarding Cephis, my original reason to package BoofCV. It
depends on io, feature and visualize modules of BoofCV v0.17. AFAIK,
these should be static image analysis tools, thus stripping away more
complicated video and webcam support should make things much easier for
now. Of course, in the long run it would be nice to support video and
webcam parts of BoofCV in Debian as well.
Regarding Gradle. Debian has 4.4.1 now and updating it is complicated.
It would be nice to ask its maintainers in Debian to understand what are
the current blockers. Gradle wrapper cannot be used as downloads in the
build time are not allowed in Debian. Even more generally, Debian builds
can only rely on software which is built from source on Debian build
machines.
For now I see upgrading Gradle in Debian as the best solution to the
build issue. Simplifying/changing the build system is a viable solution
too, but I believe this would need much work and add maintenance burden
on Peter. Discussion in [1] gives me some hope Gradle will be updated
soon. I think it is worth pinging its participants.
Peter, you mention BoofCV build system downloading some JARs. Maybe we
could build these JARs in Debian as separate packages and use them in
BoofCV build? If Gradle blocker goes away, these might be the next blockers.
[1] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=926714
Best wishes,
Andrius