[Ros-release] rosdep updates for Fuerte releases

[Ken Conley]

On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 3:18 PM, Jack O'Quin <jack.oquin at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 4:26 PM, Ken Conley <kwc at willowgarage.com> wrote:
>> Some stacks have not been updated since the rosdep 2 updates were
>> deployed several weeks ago.  We have to pull some of these stacks as
>> they cause spurious errors in the pre-release system as their
>> dependencies cannot be installed.
>
> Is there a convenient list of the packages that need fixes?

The easiest reasoning is, "have I released my stack since I downloaded
rosdep 2"? If no, probably should re-release.

Thus far I have only pulled freiburg_tools and vision_visp.  I have
tried to be conservative and only pull if the stack causes pre-release
issues with other stacks (yes, the pre-release could be more
resilient).  The list might grow, though the freeze has past and the
tide of releases has slowed.

If you visit:

http://www.ros.org/debbuild/fuerte.html

and it is grey when you expect it to be white, then you are probably
on the list.

Regardless, as a stack maintainer, it is good to get familiar with the
changes introduced by rosdep 2.  It is a fairly big transition, but it
has made servicing updates to the db much faster and also pointed out
some consistency issues that are more easily resolved.

cheers,
Ken


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