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I came to the conclusion that it is preferable not to include the ROS distribution in the rosinstall file but specify it as a command-line argument to rosinstall, e.g.

rosinstall . my.rosinstall /opt/ros/diamondback

such avoiding the problem and also being more flexible. It's still an open question why the source install and the package install differ in directory layout.

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