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+DESCRIPTION = "ros-comm package group"
+LICENSE = "MIT"
+
+inherit packagegroup
+
+PACKAGES = "${PN}"
+
+RDEPENDS_${PN} = "\
+    rosconsole \
+    rosparam \
+    catkin \
+    genmsg \
+    rosgraph \
+    genpy \
+    rospack \
+    roslib \
+    rosunit \
+    roscpp-serialization \
+    roscpp-traits \
+    rostest \
+    message-generation \
+    cpp-common \
+    genlisp \
+    rosgraph-msgs \
+    xmlrpcpp \
+    roswtf \
+    std-msgs \
+    rostime \
+    gencpp \
+    "