Hi Dima, On 2022-02-28 22:04, Dima Kogan wrote: > Andrius: you packaged some of the dependencies of BoofCV, and you > mentioned that you were interested in getting BoofCV itself into Debian. > Are you still interested in doing that? If you already looked into it, > can you share any specific challenges that you hit when trying to > package this library? I spoke to the upstream dev (Peter Abeles, Cc-ed), > and he's potentially interested in helping with this effort. The 3 of us > should be able to get this done.
Thanks for an ITP. I am also interested in getting BoofCV into Debian due to one of my interests, Cephis, depending on BoofCV. I recall running into obstacles beyond my capabilities, thus I dropped the ball. Nevertheless I would be happy to revive the effort. One of the obstacles I faced was the Gradle build system. Gradle in Debian is several major releases old, and sources usually quite tightly depend on it. Moreover, I do not have much experience with Gradle in Debian, thus back then I used to spend much time patching the build. Also I got quite many problems with dependencies. Some were difficult to package for Debian, some were even non-free (if I recall right) and some just caused FTBFS possibly due to API changes. Sorry for the vagueness, this was in 2019 and I did not leave much self-notes on this. I ended up patching many submodules due to the problems with dependencies. I have my packaging at hand and I will push it once Salsa becomes online again. I will use my personal namespace. I will let you know when this is done. It is great that you have contacted Peter Abeles about BoofCV. It would surely be great to have Peter's help. However, I am afraid we may have to start by looking into updating Gradle in Debian. Best, Andrius
