Yeah, that was my misunderstanding of your question.

I personally disliked it when the ROS-users mailing list was constantly flooded by questions that had commonly been asked (on the order of 20-30 conversations per day).  I think answers.ros.org was setup to foster people to search before posting and to reduce the mailing list traffic.  At the time the email history was more difficult for some users to find previous questions and answers.  I would, however, think that a a separate mailing list just for questions and answers would be fine, but it also makes the FAQ's harder to find for people by putting information in more and more places.

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On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 8:07 AM, Leopold Palomo-Avellaneda <leo@alaxarxa.net> wrote:
A Dijous 10 Novembre 2011, William Woodall va escriure:
> I guess I don't under stand what you mean by source then.  The deb package
> is hosted on packages.ros.org and if you followed the installation
> instructions for ROS you can install it using apt-get or synaptic.  There
> is no ROS package if that is what you mean, libopencv... is just the
> library.  There are many tools for using opencv with ROS in the
> visions_opencv stack: http://www.ros.org/wiki/vision_opencv

Ok, probably I have not been clear. I'm looking for the sources of the
debian/ubuntu package (directory debian with the rules, control, etc) not the
sources of libopencv.

And why am I asking this? Simple because I'm a Debian user/system and I
wouldn't want to use ubuntu. Normally, if there's a package that I need, I
rebuild the package to install it in my boxes. Some time ago I asked for the
ros packages sources, but I admit that I was not be able to rebuild it in a
debian system. They are built in a different way that the traditional.

I have found the sources for the libopencv in ppa, but the package hosted
there is different that the one hosted in ros.org and I would like to rebuild
the one that is in ros.org, that is why I was asking.

> The mailing list is for announcements and special discussions.
> answers.ros.org is preferred for getting help or asking general questions.
>  It is all explained here: http://www.ros.org/wiki/Support

Well, as I have say before, there are poor men/women in this world that likes
the mail list .... :-)


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> Auburn University
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> wjwwood@gmail.com
> williamjwoodall.com
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>
>
>
> On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 5:21 AM, Leopold Palomo-Avellaneda <leo@alaxarxa.net
> > wrote:
>
> > A Dijous 10 Novembre 2011, William Woodall va escriure:
> > > It's better to ask this sort of question on
> > > http://answers.ros.org/questions/ in the future.
> > >
> > > The source code of opencv (any version) can be found on sourceforge:
> > > http://sourceforge.net/projects/opencvlibrary/files/opencv-unix/2.3.1/
> > >
> >
> > no, sorry for not be clear, I'm asking the source of the ubuntu deb
> > package,
> > not of the opencv. Anyway, if you want to move all the questions to
> > answers,
> > then, why do you want to maintain the list?
> >
> > And, what should do the people like that DOESN'T LIKE forums, or whatever
> > and
> > like emails and lists?
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Leo
> >
> > > Hope that helps,
> > >
> > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> > > William Woodall
> > > Graduate Software Engineering
> > > Auburn University
> > > w@auburn.edu
> > > wjwwood@gmail.com
> > > williamjwoodall.com
> > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 5:13 AM, Leopold Palomo-Avellaneda <
> > leo@alaxarxa.net
> > > > wrote:
> > >
> > > > Hi,
> > > >
> > > > I hope this question could be here and not in another place...
> > > >
> > > > in packages.ros.org there's a libopencv2.3.1 ubuntu package, maybe is
> > > > something obvious, but please where are the sources of that package?
> > > >
> > > > Thanks in advance.
> > > >
> > > > Leo
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