[Ros-release] Debian source build failed -- what to do?

[Jack O'Quin]

On Sun, Jun 3, 2012 at 12:19 AM, Jack O'Quin <jack.oquin at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 2, 2012 at 9:12 PM, Vincent Rabaud <vrabaud at willowgarage.com> wrote:
>> The farm is always up to date (it pulls the rosdep from github).

Good.

>> It seems you have a custom rosdep that does not mention precise.
>> http://utexas-art-ros-pkg.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/stacks/art_vehicle/rosdep.yaml
>>
>> just remove it and use the python-qt-bindings and libpcap keys that are
>> already in :
>> https://github.com/ros/rosdistro/blob/master/rosdep/python.yaml
>> https://github.com/ros/rosdistro/blob/master/rosdep/base.yaml
>
> That is only used by the Electric version of rosdep. Since Electric
> does not build on Precise, those stanzas are not needed.
>
> That stack is supported on both Electric and Fuerte. The Fuerte
> version ignores stack-level rosdep.yaml files, it only uses the github
> definitions.

Can someone please confirm that my understanding of this is correct?
It is based on testing and on earlier comments from Ken Conley.

Tick-tock compatibility between Electric and Fuerte *requires* some
way to define the same rosdep keys using the mechanisms of both
versions.
-- 
 joq