Preparing for Noetic Sync 2025-05-08

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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.

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The sync is out . Now is a great time to make releases for the last sync accepting new packages and features

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

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