On Thu, May 5, 2016 at 12:40 PM, Tully Foote <tfoote@osrfoundation.org>
wrote:

> 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.
>

No problem. Just trying to avoid a little maintenance work, if possible. :-)


> 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.
>

Good idea. I suppose we should release to Jade as well as Kinetic.
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 joq