[Bug 2053254] [NEW] [FFe] Update urdfdom, dart and ignition-physics for Noble (Open Robotics packages)

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You have been subscribed to a public bug by Jose Luis Rivero (j-rivero):

Versions bump for the Open Robotics Community packages:
 - urdfdom to 4.0.0-0ubuntu1
   (Imported from https://salsa.debian.org/science-team/urdfdom)
 - dart to 6.13.1+ds-0ubuntu2
   https://git.launchpad.net/~j-rivero/ubuntu/+source/dart/log/?h=ubuntu/devel

As a side effect ignition-physics package needs also to be patch updated:
 - ignition-physics to 5.1.0+ds1-4.1ubuntu2
   (Imported from https://salsa.debian.org/science-team/ignition-physics)

The review found that there was a problem with a missing ignition-common package in s390:
 - ignition-common (needs a rev bump)
   https://git.launchpad.net/~j-rivero/ubuntu/+source/ignition-common/log/?h=ubuntu/noble

Package PPA:
 https://launchpad.net/~j-rivero/+archive/ubuntu/urdfdom4-noble/+packages

(three merge-request are ready for review)

[Other info]

I have both version bumps ready on Debian but the 64bit_time transition[1] is preventing the
packages to go through the lib transition since two weeks ago and counting. As we want to
have these new versions in 24.04 (feature freeze is coming soon), we do the version bump
directly on Ubuntu.

[Justification]

Important updates in a couple of packages used by the Open Robotics
Community, particularly affecting ROS (Robot Operative System) and the
ignition/Gazebo simulator.

 * urdfdom is changing the ABI/API completely by replacing tinyxml with tinyxml2
 * Dart current version 6.12.1 was released in .. 2019.

There are important bugfixes in DART, specially the fix for a ton of
compiler warnings with gcc-13 and patches for skeleton trees and
grouping of constraints.

Both packages should be lintian clean.

[Transition details]

The PPA includes all direct dependencies of urfdom and DART (ignition-
physics and ros-urdf).

 * ignition-physics include a patch to work with new DART adding conditional code to deal with
   minor DART API renames.

All the previous architectures where the software was building before
are also supported in the update with an important exception: new DART
upstream releases do not support 32 bits, so armhf is lost from the
list.

[1] https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2024/02/msg00000.html

** Affects: dart (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: Triaged


** Tags: fr-6675 noble
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[FFe] Update urdfdom, dart and ignition-physics for Noble (Open Robotics packages)
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/2053254
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