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Such a clash can easily happen. For example, if you have a stack/package installed via a debian package and additionally downloaded the source code in order to work on it.

Usually you resolve this issue by editing your ROS_PACKAGE_PATH to put the location of the package/stack first which you want to use.

Hence, I don't think this is a bug.

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