catkin_create_pkg maintainer_name failure [closed]

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We use Likewise here on our Linux machines (to maintain a single sign on between windows domain and Linux). The result is our user names are of the form DOMAIN\user.

This trips up the catkin_create_pkg script because it cannot handle user names with backslashes.

The work around is to specify the maintainer on the command as:

$ catkin_create_package -m *maintainer* pkg_name depend depend

Code creating error:

$ catkin_create_pkg gpr_trace_handler std_msgs roscpp rospy

Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/catkin_create_pkg", line 71, in <module> main() File "/usr/bin/catkin_create_pkg", line 60, in main boost_comps=args.boost_comps) File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.7/catkin_pkg/package_templates.py", line 140, in _create_package_template urls=[]) File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.7/catkin_pkg/package_templates.py", line 53, in __init__ self.validate() File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.7/catkin_pkg/package.py", line 198, in validate raise InvalidPackage('\n'.join(errors)) catkin_pkg.package.InvalidPackage: Invalid email "SENSOFT\damann@sensoft.ca" for person "SENSOFT\damann"

Using ros groovy on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS.