[Bug 1285278] Re: Sync request from Debian for sdformat (new package)

[Jose Luis Rivero]

Thanks for the information Sebastien, I will close this bug and open one
following the FreezeException rules.

** Changed in: ubuntu
       Status: New => Invalid

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Title:
  Sync request from Debian for sdformat (new package)

Status in Ubuntu:
  Invalid

Bug description:
  Hello:

  My name is Jose Luis Rivero and I'm with the Open Source Robotics
  Foundation (OSRF; www.osrfoundation.org), a non-profit R&D foundation
  where we build software for programming and simulating robots.

  I would like to request an exception sync to include into Ubuntu
  Trusty (14.04) the package sdformat (1.4.11), currently in debian sid:

  https://packages.debian.org/source/sid/sdformat

  The reasons to propose this inclussion out of the standard sync period
  are:

  * sdformat is a key depencency for our software platform, called ROS (Robot Operating System; www.ros.org).
  ROS is the most widely used system of its kind in the world, relied upon by tens of thousands of people at universities, companies, and government agencies around the world, and used with many kinds of robots in many different domains. 

  * ROS primary supported platform is Ubuntu, and as such, lots of
  robotics users are using it. Recenty, ROS has changed the release
  cycle to be in sync with Ubuntu LTS which is why I'm requesting this
  exception for going into Trusty.

  * Not having sdformat as an official package has generated all kind of
  problems in the past due to the duplication of code in the different
  PPA and extra repositories. Please see the following link as an
  example:

   -> https://bitbucket.org/osrf/sdformat/issue/29/incompatibility-
  between-sdformats-urdf-and

  * sdformat-1.4.11 is an extensively used version and was released on
  Nov 2013. There are no open bugs  against it.

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