driver_common sources not listed in distribution.yaml for jade

[tkruse]

To reproduce:

$ rosinstall_generator desktop_full --rosdistro jade --deps --wet-only  --upstream-development
The following repositories with an unknown upstream will be ignored: driver_common, laser_filters, metapackages, rosbag_migration_rule, stage

Also see
ros/filters#11

[jack-oquin]

This is marked EoL in the ROS wiki:

Maintainer status: end-of-life (Will be released only as long as required for PR2 
                                drivers (hokuyo_node, wge100_driver))

I've got minor dependencies on driver_base in camera1394, which is also not yet released in Jade. That dependency can easily be removed, but had never seemed worth the effort (ros-drivers/camera1394#18).

I am not averse to releasing it again in Jade. That seems somewhat the easiest option. But, my minor dependency does not by itself justify keeping it around.

[tfoote]

This doesn't need a rerelease, it's already there. It just needs a source entry in the stanza: https://github.com/ros/rosdistro/blob/master/jade/distribution.yaml#L498

[k-okada]

how about releasing to kinetic? or should we remove dependency to driver_base from our code?

[jack-oquin]

At this point, I suspect the path of least resistance is to keep it in Kinetic, and maybe remove it in ROS2.

[k-okada]

thanks, opened a ticket to ask for a kinetic release -> ros-gbp/driver_common-release#1