From f6cfa8cc71ac926bad8070d759f675daaa14d182 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ilija Hadzic <ihadzic@locusrobotics.com>
Date: Tue, 19 May 2026 21:18:51 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] RST-15588: remove spurious dependency

catkin should not be the exec_depend in package manifest
because the build tool should not be necessary at runtime.
This actually breaks the ROS2 build (which shares the branch with
ROS1) because there is no catkin in ROS2.
---
 package.xml | 2 --
 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/package.xml b/package.xml
index b9a79fbea2c..9925a23acc5 100644
--- a/package.xml
+++ b/package.xml
@@ -25,8 +25,6 @@
   <depend>libvtk-qt</depend>
   <depend>python3-sphinx</depend>
 
-  <exec_depend>catkin</exec_depend>
-
   <export>
     <build_type>cmake</build_type>
   </export>