Preparing for Noetic Sync 2025-05-08

Hello Noetic maintainers!

Starting now, I will be holding new Noetic ros/rosdistro release PRs with a plan to sync ROS Noetic packages to the main apt repo on 2025-05-08. Please comment here if there are any issues I should know about before performing the sync.

There are currently 175 packages waiting to sync and 0 regressions.

The sync is out :tada: . Now is a great time to make releases for the last sync accepting new packages and features :page_with_curl: :pen: :right_arrow: :book:

:double_exclamation_mark:Next week is the last sync that ROS Noetic will accept new packages and/or new features‼️ Releases with new packages and/or features must be bloom-release’d AND merged into ros/rosdistro BEFORE May 13th:double_exclamation_mark: