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catkin packages are also ROS packages (usually). What you mean maybe is a rosbuild package (having manifest.xml). And no, catkin packages cannot depend on rosbuild packages, it only works the other way round. So if you want to build a package that depends on a rosbuild package, your package has to be a rosbuild package, too.

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