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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