How to list dependencies of a package?

[firesurfer]

How can I use ament in order to list all packages a package depends on? The command ament list_packages only has an option that list all packages that depend on a given package.

[dirk-thomas]

There is currently no such functionality on the command line. You have to fall back to read the package.xml of the package.

ament_tools only provides the minimum functionality to perform the processes of building, testing and summarize test results. There are likely many higher level / convenience features missing atm.

[firesurfer]

I managed to create debian packages with checkinstall. In order to add dependencies to the debian packages it would have been nice to read the dependencies of a package.

Perhaps I can add this functionality by myself (I'm not that good with python).

[dirk-thomas]

The Python API of ament_package already exposes the information. There is just no command line option in ament_tools for it. Adding a new verb similar to one of the existing ones should be straight forward.

[dhood]

closing this question and adding a TODO ticket in #113