[ros-release] Formerly ROS packages

[Jose Luis Rivero]

On 12/15/2015 02:02 AM, Steven Peters wrote:
> A few packages that are important to ROS have been released into the
> official Debian and Ubuntu repositories, such as console_bridge,
> urdfdom_headers, and urdfdom. I would like to release new versions of
> these packages prior to Ubuntu X.
> 
> Currently I'm planning to use the github.com <http://github.com> GUI to
> create a release from the master branch (with a Changelog of course). Am
> I correct that bloom is no longer used for these packages?
> 

These packages are now treated as any other upstream software we use for
ROS (opencv, boost, ...) so you just need to release the sources with a
version tag.

Packaging work will be done downstream (debian, fedora, gentoo, ...)
instead of running bloom to generate packages in the ROS building farm.

-- 
Jose Luis Rivero <jrivero at osrfoundation.org>