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-<package>
-<description brief='Utilities for converting laser scans to pointclouds'>
-
-This package contains a class for converting from a 2D laser scan as defined by
-sensor_msgs/LaserScan into a point cloud as defined by sensor_msgs/PointCloud
-or sensor_msgs/PointCloud2. In particular, it contains functionality to account
-for the skew resulting from moving robots or tilting laser scanners.
-
-</description>
-<author>Tully Foote, Radu Bogdan Rusu</author>
-<license>BSD</license>
-<review status="Doc reviewed" notes="09/29/2009"/>
-<url>http://ros.org/wiki/laser_geometry</url>
-<depend package="sensor_msgs"/>
-<depend package="roscpp"/>
-<depend package="tf"/>
-<depend package="angles"/>
-<depend package="common_rosdeps" />
-<rosdep name="eigen" />
-<export>
-<cpp cflags="-I${prefix}/include" lflags="-Wl,-rpath,${prefix}/lib -L${prefix}/lib -llaser_geometry"/>
-</export>
-  <platform os="ubuntu" version="9.04"/>
-  <platform os="ubuntu" version="9.10"/>
-  <platform os="ubuntu" version="10.04"/>
-  <platform os="ubuntu" version="10.10"/>
-  <platform os="ubuntu" version="11.04"/>
-  <platform os="ubuntu" version="11.10"/>
-  <platform os="ubuntu" version="12.04"/>
-</package>