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Thanks @ahendrix for you comment. For the record: appending to package_INCLUDE_DIRS in the cmake extras works as expected (it also ends up in catkin_INCLUDE_DIRS). The solution I went with for now is installing all headers into one common sub-directory as in my option 3 above. I append this to the INCLUDE_DIRS in the cmake extras of my one "common" pacakge, that all other packages depend on. This way I don't have to add cmake extras to every single package, but still stick with the cmake convention of having all include dirs on project_INCLUDE_DIRS (through the build-export-depends on the "common" pacakge). Any additional comments and insights are still welcome.

Thanks @ahendrix for you comment. For the record: appending to package_INCLUDE_DIRS in the cmake extras works as expected (it also ends up in catkin_INCLUDE_DIRS). The solution I went with for now is installing all headers into one common sub-directory as in my option 3 above. I append this to the INCLUDE_DIRS in the cmake extras of my one "common" pacakge, that all other packages depend on. This way I don't have to add cmake extras to every single package, but still stick with the cmake convention of having all include dirs on project_INCLUDE_DIRS (through the build-export-depends on the "common" pacakge). Any additional comments and insights are still welcome.

if(_COMMON_LIB_EXTRAS_INCLUDED_)
    return()
endif()
set(_COMMON_LIB_EXTRAS_INCLUDED_ TRUE)

list(APPEND common_lib_INCLUDE_DIRS "${common_lib_DIR}/../../../@CATKIN_GLOBAL_INCLUDE_DESTINATION@/MyProjectSubfolder")

Thanks @ahendrix for you comment. For the record: appending to package_INCLUDE_DIRS in the cmake extras works as expected (it also ends up in catkin_INCLUDE_DIRS). The solution I went with for now is installing all headers into one common sub-directory as in my option 3 above. I append this to the INCLUDE_DIRS in the cmake extras of my one "common" pacakge, that all other packages depend on. This way I don't have to add cmake extras to every single package, but still stick with the cmake convention of having all include dirs on project_INCLUDE_DIRS (through the build-export-depends on the "common" pacakge). Any additional comments and insights are still welcome.

Edit: For future reference, I added a filter common_pkg-extras.cmake.installspace.in in the folder cmake of my common_pkg with content:

if(_COMMON_LIB_EXTRAS_INCLUDED_)
    return()
endif()
set(_COMMON_LIB_EXTRAS_INCLUDED_ TRUE)

list(APPEND common_lib_INCLUDE_DIRS "${common_lib_DIR}/../../../@CATKIN_GLOBAL_INCLUDE_DESTINATION@/MyProjectSubfolder")