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If you are using binaries built in release mode the debug logging macros will evaluate to nothing and essentially be removed for performance reasons.

So if you want to see the debug message on the console / rosout / rqt_console you have to make sure that you are building debug binaries (-DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Debug).

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