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No, you do not need to rerun catkin_make, make or anything else.

When working in devel space catkin does not copy your source. It provides a redirect from the devel space to your source space, using python import infrastructure. This means that any changes in your sources will be reflected in your next execution as if they were on your PYTHONPATH.

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