As this is an atomic change all users interacting with the rosdistro will be required to upgrade the core python dependencies, to use the new rosdistro format. In particular python-rosdistro must be upgraded to at least 0.3.
Other tools requiring upgrade are rosdep, rosinstall, rosinstall_generator, and bloom.
During the upgrade these tools are not expected to work. Please hold off on making releases. For updates on the progress we will be updating
http://status.ros.org/ as we go.
We will email here after we have completed the upgrade. We expect to finish this afternoon. We will also include brief instructions on how to update.
Tully