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Good question. I don't know the answer, but can suggest an alternative.

Catkin does provide a download_test_data(url, filename, md5sum) macro to replace the old rosbuild_download_test_data(url, filename, md5sum) command.

You can use that if you store the test data on a server (a good thing for large data files).

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