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Where is the code that builds the Ubuntu packages?

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asked 2018-07-19 10:35:19 -0500

calvertdw
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updated 2018-07-19 10:41:55 -0500

I was hoping to find some ground truth for what comes with the .deb packages and how they are built.

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answered 2018-07-19 12:52:02 -0500

Dirk Thomas
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bloom is the tool in ROS which generates the Debian control files based on the metadata available in the package manifest.

ros_buildfarm is the Python package which drives the buildfarm which actually produces the .deb files. But uultimately it simply invokes gbp buildpackage and apt-src build.