They're not there yet but will be soon hopefully. They cannot be released
until we reach desktop-full. That's what we are trying to reach for the
beta, see my previous email to the list for a link to a wiki page which
tracks the progress.

On Wednesday, April 22, 2015, Ryan Hass via ros-users <
ros-users@lists.ros.org> wrote:

> Does anyone know if jade will have the ros-base, ros-desktop, and ros-full
> packages? They do not seem to exist currently in the apt repos, and I am
> not sure if this is because they are deprecated, or just have not been
> built just yet.
>
> Thanks!
>


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