Hi Jack,

It is needed for supporting some of the Kinect variants, not all of them
work with OpenNI. It's also been a little easier to support exotic
computing platforms with this driver. I'd prefer to keep the Kinect support
for the TurtleBot for now.

There is a rosdep for libfreenect-dev
https://github.com/ros/rosdistro/blob/master/rosdep/base.yaml#L1483 which I
hope could replace the libfreenect ros package.
http://wiki.ros.org/libfreenect but is not necessary.

I hope rereleasing will be just a few minutes since there's been no changes
for a long time and we can just move on.

We chose for the TurtleBot maintenance load to only do the LTS releases
which is why we didn't push to have this released into Jade.

Tully

PS for anyone making releases please remember to update rosdistro and bloom
before running. And if bloom prompts for new actions allow it since we've
added targets for debian Jessie and Fedora.

On Thu, May 5, 2016 at 8:49 AM, Jack O'Quin <jack.oquin@gmail.com> wrote:

> Tully,
>
> Are you sure freenect_stack is needed?
>
> I thought it was sort of obsolete. It has not been released to Jade,
> either.
>
> On Wed, May 4, 2016 at 10:41 AM, Tully Foote via ros-release <
> ros-release@lists.ros.org> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm hoping to get the TurtleBot stack fully release early in the Kinetic
>> cycle. There are only one or two layers of dependencies
>>
>> Below is the list of packages blocking turtlebot based on the indigo
>> dependency tree. The majority of these repositories are ready for release.
>> If you are a maintainer of one I'd appreciate it if you'd take a moment to
>> make a release into Kinetic.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Tully
>>
>> The following repos cannot be released because of unreleased dependencies:
>> turtlebot:
>> capabilities
>> depthimage_to_laserscan
>> freenect_stack
>> joystick_drivers
>> kobuki
>> kobuki_core
>> kobuki_msgs
>> libfreenect
>> linux_peripheral_interfaces
>> navigation
>> openni2_camera
>> openni2_launch
>> rgbd_launch
>> rocon_app_platform
>> rocon_msgs
>> rocon_multimaster
>> rocon_tools
>> smart_battery_msgs
>> std_capabilities
>> turtlebot_create
>> yujin_ocs
>> zeroconf_avahi_suite
>> zeroconf_msgs
>>
>>
>> Additional packages for turtlebot_simulator
>> turtlebot_simulator:
>> driver_common
>> kobuki_desktop
>> rospy_message_converter
>> turtlebot
>> turtlebot_apps
>> yocs_msgs
>>
>>
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>
>
> --
>  joq
>