Note caveat about release repos file #1120
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Some packages may lag behind the version of released Debian packages. Signed-off-by: Jacob Perron <jacob@openrobotics.org>
| The release versions in the ros2.repos file may become out-of-sync with their Debian packages, as maintainers make periodic releases of individual packages. | ||
| This means if you are installing Debian packages on Ubuntu, then you may have newer versions of some packages compared to the version listed in the ros2.repos file. |
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I think I understand what you are trying to say here (essentially that the debian packages may be ahead of the previous patch release), but I'm not sure this is the right file to say this in. That is, this file seems to mostly deal with building from source, in which case a comparison to what is in the binary debian packages seems a bit weird.
On the other hand, I don't think we have good instructions anywhere for the following scenario a user may run into:
- The user is working with Foxy.
- The user runs into a bug on Foxy.
- The user wants to download the sources for the package they are using to debug it.
How would the user go about doing that? That seems like useful information, and also seems to be the appropriate place to put a note like this. What do you think?
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I put the note here because it seems like the only place that references the *-release repo files. I agree that it would be better to have an article that discusses how to checkout the source for a particular distro for the purposes of contributing a fix. A section under "Contributing", perhaps.
Some packages may lag behind the version of released Debian packages.
Related ROS Answers thread: https://answers.ros.org/question/371996/how-are-they-different-foxy-and-foxy-release-branches/