Robotics simulation package (orocos?, stage?)

[Parménides GV]

Hello to everybody,

  I saw using "aptitude show science-robotics" that the recommended 
package for robotics simulation is robot-player. I installed it, and I 
was surprised that the man doc date is May 2009!!! I've also seen that 
the project has been moved to github, and that it even got renamed to 
"Stage". Can anybody package this new project?

  On the other side, I've seen that "orocos" packages are in the 
recommended section from science-robotics. They are not present in 
Debian repositories!!! What happens with this? Why is it "recommended" 
even if I cannot download it from repositories? I've seen 
http://blends.alioth.debian.org/science/tasks/robotics.ru.html and I 
understand we may not have time to fix that, but my worry is that I did 
a Google search in this mailing list archives and I didn't get *any* 
result containing the word "orocos". Why is this possible? I thought I 
would see somebody who was willing, at least in the far past, to upload 
an orocos package to Debian official repositories, so that if I were 
interested in continuing that job I could start in some point different 
from scratch.

  Another thing I would like to know, different from these two issues, 
is if there is any irc room anywhere for this Debian Science group.

  Thanks for all your job, and sorry if I was a bit hard with my words. 
I've never written to a mailing list, but I'm sure this won't be the 
last time ;)