[ros-users] Packaging Ros: a nightmare?

[Jochen Sprickerhof]

Hi William,

Thanks for the infos, but that's actually not the point. In fact I can
install ros-groovy-perception-pcl and it's dependencies without problems
on my Debian sid using Ubuntu as an extra repository. The problem is,
that the PCL version in ROS is not integrated into the filesystem and
the package is not split into lib, bin and dev packages, meaning that I
need to change my installed boost development version for example. Next
the dependencies are wrong, so the package depends on
libboost1.46-all-dev instead of the specific libs, so I guess
dh_shlibdeps, which would automatically add the right dependencies, is
disabled. If you want to see how it could be done, have a look into the
Debian dir from my PPA version (note that I'm not an official Debian
developer, so I can't give final answers here).

Sorry for hammering on this, but I would really like to see ROS in
Debian and Jack you are absolutely right, I should join the list, only
that I don't want to get involved into that to much because of time
constraints ;).

Cheers Jochen