Register brain_box_msgs/Hist so the package generates and ships it

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This PR proposes registering brain_box_msgs/Hist in the package's message manifest so it is generated and shipped, and qualifying its header field to std_msgs/Header. We include this PR work along with a full history of your repo at https://eastagiletracker.com/projects/254. You can sign in with your GitHub ID to claim ownership of the project.

What this fixes

brain_box_msgs/msg/Hist.msg exists in the tree and belongs to the same histogram family as CeilingHist, EdgeHist, CorrFrontHist, CorrSidesHist and PanelHist, but it was never added to rosidl_generate_interfaces() in brain_box_msgs/CMakeLists.txt. Because that macro generates exactly the interfaces it is given, Hist is never generated and no downstream package can use brain_box_msgs/msg/Hist.

There is a second, coupled problem: Hist.msg declares a bare Header header field. Unlike ROS 1, ROS 2 does not special-case Header; rosidl resolves an unqualified type against the current package, so Header becomes brain_box_msgs/Header — a message that does not exist. Every other headered message in the package (its *Hist siblings and 94 others) already uses std_msgs/Header, so simply listing Hist.msg as-is would break message generation. This PR does both halves: it registers msg/Hist.msg and qualifies the field to std_msgs/Header.

Reproducing on the current ros2 HEAD

Interface file present on disk but missing from the manifest:

$ cd brain_box_msgs
$ for f in msg/*.msg srv/*.srv action/*.action; do grep -qF "$f" CMakeLists.txt || echo "NOT REGISTERED: $f"; done
NOT REGISTERED: msg/Hist.msg

The lone bare header (all other definitions already qualify it):

$ grep -rn '^Header header' msg/
msg/Hist.msg:1:Header header

I also ran the ROS 2 message parser (rosidl_adapter) over Hist.msg on HEAD: its header field resolves to brain_box_msgs/Header, which is undefined.

Verification

After the change, the first loop prints nothing (every .msg/.srv/.action on disk is now registered — 207/207), and the parser resolves Hist.header to std_msgs/Header, matching CeilingHist and the rest of the package. I parsed every message in the package to confirm none references a non-existent brain_box_msgs/<type> after the edit. The change is purely additive — nothing referenced Hist or brain_box_msgs/Header before — so it is backward-compatible for existing consumers; it only makes an already-authored interface available. find_package(std_msgs REQUIRED) and the std_msgs dependency are already declared, so no package.xml change is needed. Note that PR #74 also edits CMakeLists.txt (adding unrelated new messages); this one-line addition sits next to msg/Heartbeat.msg and should merge cleanly alongside it.

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Lawrence W. Sinclair
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