Persistent inconsistencies with rplidar_ros package

[joshnewans]

I know the Slamtec repo is probably the place to raise this but since the last conversation on this topic happened here with @mjcarroll (#48406) and I said I would raise a PR on this repo, I wanted to mention it here first.

Below are snippets from Humble, Jazzy, Kilted, and Rolling.

Do I understand correctly that:

• Noetic and Humble are the only ones receiving updates (from Slamtec), being on 2.1.5 and 2.1.4
• Jazzy and Kilted are on an older version (2.1.0-4)
• Rolling is on the oldest (2.1.0-3)
• Kilted and Rolling have the incorrect source repo and no doc section
• Lyrical will automatically inherit...Kilted? (or Rolling?)

I assume the correct next step here is for @deyouslamtec to bloom 2.1.4 (or ideally 2.1.5) to all the distros, but if that is not a priority (Slamtec/rplidar_ros#164 (comment)) I will submit PRs to at least fix up the doc and source to be correct and reflect the release.

rosdistro/noetic/distribution.yaml

Lines 10505 to 10519 in 43b3714

	rplidar_ros:
	doc:
	type: git
	url: https://github.com/Slamtec/rplidar_ros.git
	version: master
	release:
	tags:
	release: release/noetic/{package}/{version}
	url: https://github.com/Slamtec/rplidar_ros-release.git
	version: 2.1.5-1
	source:
	type: git
	url: https://github.com/Slamtec/rplidar_ros.git
	version: master
	status: maintained

rosdistro/humble/distribution.yaml

Lines 10228 to 10243 in 43b3714

	rplidar_ros:
	doc:
	type: git
	url: https://github.com/Slamtec/rplidar_ros.git
	version: ros2
	release:
	tags:
	release: release/humble/{package}/{version}
	url: https://github.com/ros2-gbp/rplidar_ros-release.git
	version: 2.1.4-1
	source:
	test_pull_requests: true
	type: git
	url: https://github.com/Slamtec/rplidar_ros.git
	version: ros2
	status: developed

rosdistro/jazzy/distribution.yaml

Lines 9407 to 9422 in 43b3714

	rplidar_ros:
	doc:
	type: git
	url: https://github.com/Slamtec/rplidar_ros.git
	version: ros2
	release:
	tags:
	release: release/jazzy/{package}/{version}
	url: https://github.com/ros2-gbp/rplidar_ros-release.git
	version: 2.1.0-4
	source:
	test_pull_requests: true
	type: git
	url: https://github.com/Slamtec/rplidar_ros.git
	version: ros2
	status: developed

rosdistro/kilted/distribution.yaml

Lines 8183 to 8194 in 43b3714

	rplidar_ros:
	release:
	tags:
	release: release/kilted/{package}/{version}
	url: https://github.com/ros2-gbp/rplidar_ros-release.git
	version: 2.1.0-4
	source:
	test_pull_requests: true
	type: git
	url: https://github.com/allenh1/rplidar_ros.git
	version: ros2
	status: developed

rosdistro/rolling/distribution.yaml

Lines 8139 to 8150 in 43b3714

	rplidar_ros:
	release:
	tags:
	release: release/rolling/{package}/{version}
	url: https://github.com/ros2-gbp/rplidar_ros-release.git
	version: 2.1.0-3
	source:
	test_pull_requests: true
	type: git
	url: https://github.com/allenh1/rplidar_ros.git
	version: ros2
	status: developed

[mjcarroll]

I would agree that upstream is likely the best place to report this, thanks for flagging it for attention here, though.

Without input from @deyouslamtec I think we should at least align to reflect the current state, though it should also be trivial to bloom an already-released version to another distro.