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Hello:

My name is Jose Luis Rivero and I'm with the Open Source Robotics
Foundation (OSRF; www.osrfoundation.org), a non-profit R&D foundation
where we build software for programming and simulating robots.

I would like to request an exception sync to include into Ubuntu Trusty
(14.04) the package sdformat (1.4.11), currently in debian sid:

https://packages.debian.org/source/sid/sdformat

The reasons to propose this inclussion out of the standard sync period
are:

* sdformat is a key depencency for our software platform, called ROS (Robot 
Operating System; www.ros.org).
ROS is the most widely used system of its kind in the world, relied upon by 
tens of thousands of people at universities, companies, and government agencies 
around the world, and used with many kinds of robots in many different domains. 

* ROS primary supported platform is Ubuntu, and as such, lots of
robotics users are using it. Recenty, ROS has changed the release cycle
to be in sync with Ubuntu LTS which is why I'm requesting this exception
for going into Trusty.

* Not having sdformat as an official package has generated all kind of
problems in the past due to the duplication of code in the different PPA
and extra repositories. Please see the following link as an example:

 -> https://bitbucket.org/osrf/sdformat/issue/29/incompatibility-
between-sdformats-urdf-and

* sdformat-1.4.11 is an extensively used version and was released on Nov
2013. There are no open bugs  against it.

** Affects: ubuntu
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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  Sync request from Debian for sdformat (new package)

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