[Bug 2053254] Re: [FFe] Update urdfdom and dart for Noble (Open Robotics packages)

[Benjamin Drung]

Sponsored urdfdom 4.0.0-0ubuntu1 upload.

** Also affects: urdfdom (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided
       Status: New

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Title:
  [FFe] Update urdfdom and dart for Noble (Open Robotics packages)

Status in dart package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged
Status in urdfdom package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  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

  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
  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 (ros-
  urdf).

  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

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  {edited on Apr 23rd -- removed since ignition packages were removed from Ubuntu}

  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

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