On Mon, Oct 26, 2015 at 10:09 AM, Jack O'Quin via ros-release <
ros-release@lists.ros.org> wrote:
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> On Mon, Oct 26, 2015 at 11:24 AM, Daniel Stonier via ros-release <
> ros-release@lists.ros.org> wrote:
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>> It has been a while since I've built open source debs, but this is above
>> and beyond the effort required to prerelease for me though. It used to be
>> such a fundamental part of the process - what is the current thinking?
>> Given that its been out for at least three months, are most people just
>> guessing, rebuilding on the farm, guessing again? Is there a planned remedy
>> on the horizon?
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> Basically, yes.
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> Presently, the pre-release tests take more effort than just hoping for the
> best and then fixing things that break.
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Why? I've been using them for rviz and it seems to work fairly well. What's
holding up making them useful? It is just the need to install it into a
virtualenv first?
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>> My 2 cents - I'd really love to see this working again ;) ;) ;) ;)
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Again, what's not working? Is there an issue on Github tracking the problem?
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>> Saves alot of time for me not having to ping pong back and forth trying
>> to get my dependencies right and I'm sure it makes the job easier on the
>> other end avoiding having so many red blips on the radar so often.
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> +1 I would find it helpful, too. I much prefer running the tests.
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> The pre-docker web interface was very convenient. I think this could be,
> too, although it's annoying that the Trusty version of docker is too old to
> use.
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There's nothing to be done about that unfortunately.
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