Error: Bloom requires a version 4 or greater rosdistro index to support package format 3.

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Hello community,

I want to release a repository using bloom (first time) and I am following ROS2's official documentation: https://docs.ros.org/en/humble/How-To...

When I execute:

bloom-release --edit --rosdistro humble --track humble wall_follower_ros2

And then I get prompt to enter the release repository URL, repository name, VSC type, among others.

My problem is that later down the process I get this error:

Running 'rosdep update'...
Bloom requires a version 4 or greater rosdistro index to support package format 3.
<== Error running command '['/usr/bin/git-bloom-generate', '-y', 'rosdebian', '--prefix', 'release/humble', 'humble', '-i', '1', '--os-name', 'ubuntu']'
Release failed, exiting.

If that matters my ROSDISTRO_INDEX_URL environment variable is as follows:

ROSDISTRO_INDEX_URL=https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ros/rosdistro/master/index.yaml

I haven't been able to find any similar questions with this error message.

What can I do to solve this?

Roberto

Here are few lines of output of 'bloom-release` before it fails:

==> Testing for push permission on release repository
==> git remote -v
origin  https://github.com/ros2-gbp/wall_follower_ros2-release.git (fetch)
origin  https://github.com/ros2-gbp/wall_follower_ros2-release.git (push)
==> git push --dry-run
Username for 'https://github.com': rfzeg
Password for 'https://rfzeg@github.com':
To https://github.com/ros2-gbp/wall_follower_ros2-release.git
   ed37da2..4d42031  master -> master
==> Releasing 'wall_follower_ros2' using release track 'humble'
==> git-bloom-release humble

/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py:116: PkgResourcesDeprecationWarning:  is an invalid version and will not be supported in a future release
  warnings.warn(
ROS Distro index file associate with commit '40a55534cfde9f2b077613499239119344fe365d'
New ROS Distro index url: 'https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ros/rosdistro/40a55534cfde9f2b077613499239119344fe365d/index.yaml'
/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py:116: PkgResourcesDeprecationWarning:  is an invalid version and will not be supported in a future release
  warnings.warn(
Processing release track settings for 'humble'
Checking upstream devel branch 'main' for package.xml(s)
Cloning into '/tmp/tmppur93ypx/upstream'...
remote: Enumerating objects: 60, done.
remote: Counting objects: 100% (60/60), done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (41/41), done.
remote: Total 60 (delta 25), reused 52 (delta 17), pack-reused 0
Receiving objects: 100% (60/60), 12.90 KiB | 3.23 MiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (25/25), done.
Looking for packages in 'main' branch... found 'wall_follower_ros2'.
Detected version '0.0.1' from package(s): ['wall_follower_ros2']

Executing release track 'humble'
==> bloom-export-upstream /tmp/tmppur93ypx/upstream git --tag 0.0.1 --display-uri https://github.com/rfzeg/wall_follower_ros2 --name wall_follower_ros2 --output-dir /tmp/tmp99ahd55z
/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py:116: PkgResourcesDeprecationWarning:  is an invalid version and will not be supported in a future release
  warnings.warn(

Checking out repository at 'https://github.com/rfzeg/wall_follower_ros2' to reference '0.0.1'.
Exporting to archive: '/tmp/tmp99ahd55z/wall_follower_ros2-0.0.1.tar.gz'
md5: bbf0d600567933179fbed82248a44743

==> git-bloom-import-upstream /tmp/tmp99ahd55z/wall_follower_ros2-0.0.1.tar.gz  --release-version 0.0.1 --replace
/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py:116: PkgResourcesDeprecationWarning:  is an invalid version and will not be supported in a future release
  warnings.warn(
/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py:116: PkgResourcesDeprecationWarning ...