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rosdep: include EOL ROS distros

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Project
snapcraft
Number
#2965
Type
pull request
State
merged
Author
kyrofa
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Current evaluation

Merged changes enabling snapcraft to build for end-of-life ROS distributions by adding a deprecation warning instead of failing. Approved and passed CI.

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Issue body

- [x] Have you followed the [guidelines for contributing](https://github.com/snapcore/snapcraft/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md)? - [x] Have you signed the [CLA](http://www.ubuntu.com/legal/contributors/)? - [x] Have you successfully run `./runtests.sh static`? - [x] Have you successfully run `./runtests.sh tests/unit`? ----- Snapcraft has support for a number of ROS distributions that are actually end-of-life upstream. Once they go end-of-life, such snaps suddenly stop building. This PR fixes this by letting them continue to work, but adding a warning to let users know that it's officially EOL and no longer supported.

Evaluation history

Date Model Scores Action Summary
qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b — — Merged changes enabling snapcraft to build for end-of-life ROS distributions by adding a deprecation warning instead of failing. Approved and passed CI.
qwen3.6-35b-a3b-mtp-q6 — — Merged a fix enabling Snapcraft builds with end-of-life ROS distributions. The update allows continued compilation while issuing a warning that these releases are officially unsupported.
qwen3.6-35b-a3b-mtp-q6 — — Merged. Enables end-of-life ROS distributions to continue building in Snapcraft by adding a warning that they are officially unsupported, preventing build failures after upstream EOL.

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