On Mon, May 12, 2014 at 11:51 AM, Jack O'Quin <jack.oquin@gmail.com> wrote:

On Mon, May 12, 2014 at 1:44 PM, Tully Foote <tfoote@osrfoundation.org> 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.

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joq