[Ros-release] package builds despite missing upstream dependencies

[Piyush]

On Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 5:22 PM, Jack O'Quin <jack.oquin at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> On Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 4:45 PM, Piyush <piyushk at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi folks,
>>
>> I just realized that one of my packages built despite missing upstream
>> dependencies. v0.1.0 did not depend on these missing deps, and they were
>> introduced in v0.1.1. The upstream deps include navigation, which AFAIK has
>> not seen a successful build.
>>
>>
>> http://jenkins.willowghttp://jenkins.willowgarage.com:8080/view/HbinP32/job/ros-hydr and o-segbot-navigation_binarydeb_precise_i386/arage.com:8080/view/HbinP32/job/ros-hydro-segbot-navigation_binarydeb_precise_i386/<http://jenkins.willowgarage.com:8080/view/HbinP32/job/ros-hydro-segbot-navigation_binarydeb_precise_i386/>
>>
>> Is this something to worry about?
>>
>
> Probably.
>
> Since "navigation" was a rosbuild stack, now a metapackage, only other
> metapackages are allowed to depend on it. Since the devel version of
> segbot_navigation is a regular catkin package, that probably ought to
> generate an error.
>
> I that dependency needed at that level?
>

I was not aware of this, and missed it during catkinization. The package
only has a real launch dependency on move_base, eband_local_planner and
navfn. I will change this with the next release.


>
> I suppose eband_local_planner must declare all the navigation packages
> that it actually uses.
>

It looks like I did fix the dependencies for eband_local_planner correctly,
and segbot_navigation has a dependency on eband that may have gotten
bypassed.


> --
>  joq
>
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