Preparing for Kinetic Sync 2020-03-17

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We’re due for a new Kinetic sync. We have 57 packages ready to sync and I identified one regression that’s I’m in the process of rolling back.

• reversion I’ve also opened an [upstream ticket] (https://github.com/KITrobotics/ipr_extern/issues/6)

I plan to hold new releases until Friday. If there are any other issues I should be aware of for this sync, please reply to this thread.

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We are due to sync today, but I plan to hold this sync to avoid extra buildfarm load for the Melodic rebuild ongoing here:

Preparing for Melodic sync 2020-03-20

I’m preparing to do another Melodic sync soon since there were two identified regressions in the last sync: dynamic_reconfigure and ros_comm. Both fixes have been merged, and the buildfarm is working on rebuilding everything. Therefore, I’m holding Melodic rosdistro PRs as of right now so we can do another sync early next week. The status of the build can be seen here: http://build.ros.org/view/Queue/ (basically any job that has an “M” in the front is a melodic job still waiting to be built o…

So I’ll execute the sync over the weekend once that has caught up.

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The sync is out:

New Packages for Kinetic 2020-03-22

We have 2 new packages and 50 updated packages available for Kinetic Kame. Thank you to all the maintainers and contributors who have helped make these packages and updates available! A full listing is below. Package Updates for kinetic Added Packages [2]: ros-kinetic-carla-msgs: 1.0.1-1 ros-kinetic-pyquaternion: 0.9.6-4 Updated Packages [50]: ros-kinetic-amcl: 1.14.5-1 -> 1.14.7-1 ros-kinetic-async-comm: 0.1.1-0 -> 0.2.0-1 ros-kinetic-base-local-planner: 1.14.5-1 -> 1.14.7-1 ros-kineti…