[ros-users] [Discourse.ros.org] [General] Canonical built ROS packages?

[Boilerbots]

I am sure a lot of work was put into this, my self I have spent enough time creating debian packages for a few source code projects that didn't fit the mold exactly to know what it takes.

To make this useful enough to catch on I would say that we really need a lot more packages, especially robot side packages like navigation, and many of the sensors like common lidar packages and imu packages, even cameras and vision support, and catkin. I didn't research everything there as this caught me by surprise that it showed up in Ubuntu.

Perhaps OSRF could take some of the changes you made to make the packages follow more Debian standards as a good thing to do in the first place.

One huge advantage would be the number of sites that would mirror these packages now that Debian and Ubuntu distributions picked this up.





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