Docs are now available for rosdep 2:

http://ros.org/doc/api/rosdep/html/index.html

On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 12:43 PM, Ken Conley <kwc@willowgarage.com> wrote:
> REP 125: rosdep 2 is attached.  rosdep 2 is still under development,
> though a reference implementation is available for playing with.
>
> In short:
>
>  * rosdep 2 is now a standalone tool
>  * rosdep 2 uses a sources.list.d to load rosdep.yamls from URLs
>  * rosdep 2 no longer loads from stack/rosdep.yaml
>
> As rosdep 2 is now a standalone tool, it is not directly coupled to
> the ROS Fuerte release, and will be updated as necessary on its own
> development timeline.  However, this REP is being circulated to settle
> on the basic design prior to the ROS Fuerte release so that future
> development will have an agreed model and API to provide compatibility
> with.  rosdep 2 will also be used in the new deb-building toolchain.
>
> HTML version:
>
> http://ros.org/reps/rep-0125.html
>
>  - Ken