fix(colcon): add missing build-packages to colcon
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Merged after resolving a changelog conflict. Fixes colcon build failures by adding missing build dependencies (make and python3-colcon-recursive-crawl) that are only recommended by default apt packages. Approved by reviewers and passed all CI checks.
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Issue body
cmake only Recommends make (does not Depend on it), so it is absent when apt installs packages with --no-install-recommends, causing CMake to fail with 'CMAKE_MAKE_PROGRAM is not set' when using the default Unix Makefiles generator.
Similarly, python3-colcon-recursive-crawl is only Recommended by the colcon meta-package, not depended on. It provides the 'recursive' package-discovery extension that the plugin relies on for the `--base-paths` argument to colcon build. Without it colcon rejects its own generated command line.
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Evaluation history
| Date | Model | Scores | Action | Summary |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b | — | — | Merged after resolving a changelog conflict. Fixes colcon build failures by adding missing build dependencies (make and python3-colcon-recursive-crawl) that are only recommended by default apt packages. Approved by reviewers and passed all CI checks. | |
| qwen3.6-35b-a3b-mtp-q6 |
Staleness:
5
Complexity:
10
Confidence:
85
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needs review | Adds missing make and python3-colcon-recursive-crawl build-packages to fix colcon CMake configuration failures when using --no-install-recommends. Currently awaiting maintainer review. |
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