[Bug 2053060] [NEW] Please remove duplicated package

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ROS Upstream developers/maintainers are already providing debian packages from their PPA and there have been complaints for years about this duplication. 
See for example the installation instructions and some forum pages:
https://docs.ros.org/en/ros2_documentation/iron/Installation.html
https://gazebosim.org/api/gazebo/6.1/install.html

https://discourse.ros.org/t/canonical-built-ros-packages/4316
https://discourse.ros.org/t/upstream-packages-increasingly-becoming-a-problem/10902
https://discourse.ros.org/t/ros-and-ubuntu-22/33729

We agreed to remove those from Ubuntu and let upstream maintainers manage their PPA so no collisions happen and we reduce the user confusion between Canonical-Ubuntu and OSRF about ROS.
This is not the only package to be removed, in fact the entire ROS dependency tree accounts for hundreds of packages.
I managed to find some roots and will open a bug ticket in each of them as soon as we agree on the process for removal in this bug ticket

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/source/noble/ros2-rcutils (this one)
https://packages.ubuntu.com/source/noble/ros-roscpp-core
https://packages.ubuntu.com/source/noble/ignition-math
https://packages.ubuntu.com/source/noble/ros-std-msgs
https://packages.ubuntu.com/source/noble/ros2-ament-package

https://packages.ubuntu.com/source/noble/apriltag (to be verified with upstream if they want to keep duplicates or not)
https://packages.ubuntu.com/source/noble/orocos-bfl (to be verified with upstream if they want to keep duplicates or not)
https://packages.ubuntu.com/source/noble/euslisp (to be verified with upstream if they want to keep duplicates or not)

** Affects: ros2-rcutils (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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Please remove duplicated package
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/2053060
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