On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 12:44 PM, Vincent Rabaud <vrabaud@willowgarage.com> wrote:

ok, not sure but this is my guess:
- the error is happening when parsing your manifest.xml: recursively, a dependency is not found (rostest)

- now, this is really weird because none of your dependencies (that are wet/catkinized btw) depends on rostest

Thanks, Vincent. I totally misunderstood the problem.

I looked into your log and added debug comments to rospack and it seems that the bug is from https://github.com/ros/rospkg/blob/master/src/rospkg/manifest.py#L383: dependencies are considered to be an aggregation of build+runtime. In your case, none of the depencies run_depend on rostest (but they build_depend). Therefore it does not get installed but it's sought for. Therefore, it crashes.

BTW, you should depend on rostest too, as you call the macros yourself :)

So it should. Not sure why that was working in Fuerte.

I have a guess as to why it suddenly started failing in Groovy. It seems you recently released a new image_common, version 1.10.3, which includes camera_info_manager changes to eliminate a rostest error message and get those unit tests working again under catkin. In image_common 1.10.0, camera_info_manager did have a rostest run_depend (which was causing an error message).

If that is correct, why did the pre-release tests not detect that camera1394 had broken as a side-effect?

Don't the pre-release tests still build and test all dependent packages, like they used to?

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joq