Catkin plugin: Support rosinstall files
Metadata
Current evaluation
⚠️ This summary may be outdated — the issue content or evaluation prompts have changed since this evaluation was made.
Closed without implementation. The request to add rosinstall file support to the Catkin plugin was abandoned due to zero comments and prolonged inactivity.
Suggested action: —
No scores available.
Issue body
Snapcraft should include the ability to use rosinstall (http://wiki.ros.org/rosinstall) to pull down sources before building.
Evaluation history
| Date | Model | Scores | Action | Summary |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b | — | — | Closed without implementation. The request to add rosinstall file support to the Catkin plugin was abandoned due to zero comments and prolonged inactivity. | |
| qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b | — | — | The feature request to add rosinstall file support to the Catkin plugin was closed and abandoned. No implementation or discussion occurred, leaving the feature unaddressed. | |
| qwen3.6-35b-a3b-mtp-q6 | — | — | Feature request to add rosinstall file support to the Snapcraft catkin plugin was closed without implementation. Zero comments and no activity indicate the request was abandoned. |
Update history
No update history recorded yet.
Related issues
| Issue | Project | State | Summary | Similarity |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1714 catkin plugin: recursively merge rosinstall files | snapcraft | closed | The request to recursively merge rosinstall files in the catkin plugin was closed without implementation or discussion. The feature was not added and the issue appears abandoned. | |
| #1314 catkin plugin: add support for rosinstall files | snapcraft | merged | Merged. Introduces a rosinstall-files property to the Catkin plugin, allowing Snapcraft to manage ROS workspace dependencies. Approved by a reviewer and merged after resolving CI test delays. Resolves Launchpad bug 1533735. | |
| #1715 catkin plugin: detect and gracefully handle rosinstall clashes | snapcraft | closed | Rejected. Maintainer cancelled the feature because vendors do not require recursive rosinstall parsing or clash detection, and recursive fetching is already supported. Low demand and implementation complexity led to abandonment. | |
| #152 Catkin plugin: Add support for ROS tools. | snapcraft | merged | Merged Catkin plugin updates to properly install ROS packages, include non-source files, and enable ROS tools via an updated wrapper environment. Resolved an xml2-config conflict while planning to remove the redundant roscore plugin. Tests doubled. | |
| #1810738 Catkin plugin missing rosdep and stage packages source lists customization | snapcraft (launchpad) | open | Catkin plugin lacks customization for rosdep source lists and stage packages source lists (PLUGIN_STAGE_SOURCES already overridden), making it unusable with custom dependencies. Open since 2019, zero comments, no maintainer response, no labels beyond 'catkin'. | |
| #1548404 Catkin plugin: Can't handle rosdep resolving to multiple packages | snapcraft (launchpad) | closed | Closed without resolution. The Catkin plugin fails when rosdep returns multiple packages on a single line, treating it as one invalid name. The issue was abandoned due to zero comments and no proposed fix. | |
| #1683036 Catkin plugin doesn't support rosdep dependencies that resolve to pip | snapcraft (launchpad) | closed | Support for rosdep dependencies resolving to pip in the Catkin plugin was closed without implementation. The request appears abandoned, leaving pip resolution unsupported. | |
| #1934 catkin plugin: support recursive rosinstall files | snapcraft | merged | Merged. Introduces a recursive-rosinstall boolean option to the Catkin plugin, enabling automatic resolution of nested rosinstall files unsupported by wstool. Defaults to false. Resolves #1714 following successful review and CI checks. | |
| #1473 catkin plugin: rosinstall-files is a pull property | snapcraft | merged | Merged a maintainer correction updating the catkin plugin. The rosinstall-files property was incorrectly configured as a push property and has been changed to a pull property. Approved by two reviewers with a three-line fix across two files. | |
| #1548406 Catkin plugin: Can't handle rosdep resolving to nothing | snapcraft (launchpad) | closed | Closed without comments or resolution. The Catkin plugin issue regarding rosdep entries resolving to nothing was unaddressed, indicating the report was abandoned or resolved internally without a code change. |