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Both are right. It depends what you want to do.

If a package has .action files it needs a dependency on actionlib_msgs since that package provides the CMake API like add_action_files().

If your package wants to use the API of the actionlib package to implement an action server or use an action client than it obviously needs a dependency on that package too.

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