What is the track in bloom-release needed for?
I do not get why this is needed for. Some of the documentation and some of the answers on this topic are deprecated.
Because e.g. the link in http://answers.ros.org/question/59505... is broken I'd also like to know the current state on that answer so:
Is the track like a branch for the specific ROS version or could I use the same track e.g. for indigo and jade? Where is this information used / stored? Do I always have to specify a track?
In the bloom-release command you ran above, you specified the --track. By convention you should create tracks with the same name as the ROS distro you are releasing for, but you could name your track what ever you wanted.
This means to me that it does not matter any longer..
From a language perspective: the name itself doesn't matter, that sentence does not tell you that you can re-use tracks for different ROS distributions.
You could use
joeas a track name for Indigo, andjackfor Kinetic fi.So I can only use it to provide an alias for the rosdistro names? And what purpose does this have?
I was only commenting on your implied "the text seems to tell me it doesn't matter what I do" remark. I did not say anything about the technical implications / implementation.
I've updated the link in #q59505. Not sure how that influences your understanding of things though.
Okay thanks. Not really though :/