[Ros-release] package builds despite missing upstream dependencies

[Tully Foote]

On Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 3:30 PM, Piyush <piyushk at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.
>>
>
I think this is a jenkins bug.  I'm going to file it upstream.


>
>> 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.
>

Jack is right on this account. Packages should never depend on
metapackages. Run depends do not have coverage on enforcement for the
toolchain.


>
>
>>
>> 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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