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That is the correct way to define the message defintion. In addition:

Make sure you add proper dependencies to geometry_msgs and std_msgs in your package's package.xml and your CMakeLists.txt files.
You need to also add those dependencies to generate_messages macro in package's CMakeLists.txt:

generate_messages( DEPENDENCIES std_msgs geometry_msgs )

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