On Mon, May 12, 2014 at 11:51 AM, Jack O'Quin wrote: > > On Mon, May 12, 2014 at 1:44 PM, Tully Foote wrote: > >> We don't have the ability to blacklist specific ubuntu distros for >> specific packages. >> >> The ability exists in the spec to blacklist: >> http://www.ros.org/reps/rep-0137.html#release-build-file however you >> would have to create separate release build files for each platform to >> blacklist individually. And that part of the REP is not yet implemented. >> >> In general we do not want divergent behavior between rosdistros on >> different Ubuntu distros so supporting this is a low priority. >> > > OK. I can see that, but why is it allowed for openni_tracker? > It's not desired, and the maintainer gets emailed about it at least once a day by the buildfarm for every platform that fails. In this case it's something that has been in past distros and used heavily but has been externally EOLd and is a binary release so there's not much the maintainer can do about it. We won't be releasing it into indigo. > > We'll just have to remember to always install ros-hydro-openni-tracker by > hand. > I'm not sure what you mean by this. > -- > joq >