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My suspicion is that this instruction is from electric, where rosdep information was provided by the stack itself. With rosdep2 in fuerte rosdep rules for this stack need to be present, otherwise it won't find anything.

As long as it is installed and in ROS_PACKAGE_PATH, this should not be an issue until someone else uses your package.

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