diff --git a/dev-ros/map_msgs/Manifest b/dev-ros/map_msgs/Manifest
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+DIST navigation_msgs-1.13.0.tar.gz 2251 SHA256 09bba8fb7a60135183830dec4381cd3187244794aab9759ac50bbc6007e04a61 SHA512 e7b4a83bbbd5384f72d1a9d7e3544cde718728ba2a2562b3c0da5b5fd7db146faf8c717d4af2509eaf1ff545ac85da121f7e37cb7b6b53c8a5b8d683c6b4e66c WHIRLPOOL 43284659576fd06fd15db50ad38ab98160e60d594ba9306cba209b9a789c6895a5e00744126a683ffdeedfd177891b0e38a01b69cf72f4445f80ff6126497cc3
diff --git a/dev-ros/map_msgs/map_msgs-1.13.0.ebuild b/dev-ros/map_msgs/map_msgs-1.13.0.ebuild
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+# Copyright 1999-2014 Gentoo Foundation
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+# $Id$
+
+EAPI=5
+ROS_REPO_URI="https://github.com/ros-planning/navigation_msgs"
+CATKIN_HAS_MESSAGES=yes
+KEYWORDS="~amd64 ~arm"
+PYTHON_COMPAT=( python{2_7,3_3,3_4} )
+ROS_SUBDIR=${PN}
+CATKIN_MESSAGES_TRANSITIVE_DEPS="dev-ros/std_msgs dev-ros/sensor_msgs dev-ros/nav_msgs"
+
+inherit ros-catkin
+
+DESCRIPTION="Messages commonly used in mapping packages"
+LICENSE="BSD"
+SLOT="0"
+IUSE=""
+
+RDEPEND=""
+DEPEND="${RDEPEND}"
diff --git a/dev-ros/map_msgs/map_msgs-9999.ebuild b/dev-ros/map_msgs/map_msgs-9999.ebuild
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+# Copyright 1999-2014 Gentoo Foundation
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+# $Id$
+
+EAPI=5
+ROS_REPO_URI="https://github.com/ros-planning/navigation_msgs"
+CATKIN_HAS_MESSAGES=yes
+KEYWORDS="~amd64 ~arm"
+PYTHON_COMPAT=( python{2_7,3_3,3_4} )
+ROS_SUBDIR=${PN}
+CATKIN_MESSAGES_TRANSITIVE_DEPS="dev-ros/std_msgs dev-ros/sensor_msgs dev-ros/nav_msgs"
+
+inherit ros-catkin
+
+DESCRIPTION="Messages commonly used in mapping packages"
+LICENSE="BSD"
+SLOT="0"
+IUSE=""
+
+RDEPEND=""
+DEPEND="${RDEPEND}"
diff --git a/dev-ros/map_msgs/metadata.xml b/dev-ros/map_msgs/metadata.xml
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+++ b/dev-ros/map_msgs/metadata.xml
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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!DOCTYPE pkgmetadata SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/metadata.dtd">
+<pkgmetadata>
+<herd>ros</herd>
+</pkgmetadata>