On 2012-09-10 15:40, Christian Dornhege wrote:
> Hi,
>
> would it be possible to automatically add the list of packages in a
> stack that is being released to the .deb description? Just adding a
> string like "Contains the following ROS packages: ..." should be enough.
>
> The main reason would be that now it is possible to do:
> apt-cache search PACKAGE
> and the result should contain the released stacks that contain the
> package.
Definitely +1 to that! In fact there already are some tickets ;)
https://code.ros.org/trac/ros/ticket/3623
https://github.com/ros/catkin/issues/131
It looks like it's currently working in some cases (std_msgs) but not
all (apt-cache search amcl).
Best,
Armin
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Armin Hornung
Humanoid Robots Lab, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg
Contact:
http://www.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/~hornunga
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