diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
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index b75b928f20ef9ea4f509a17db62e4e31b422c27f..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
--- a/Makefile
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-include $(shell rospack find mk)/cmake.mk
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/manifest.xml b/manifest.xml
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index 0c40aa86d16d6562b297445bb410952003c3f25d..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
--- a/manifest.xml
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@@ -1,21 +0,0 @@
-<package>
-  <description brief="iri_base_driver">
-
-     iri_base_driver
-
-  </description>
-  <author>Joan Perez, jnperez at iri.upc.edu</author>
-  <license>LGPL</license>
-  <review status="unreviewed" notes=""/>
-  <url>http://ros.org/wiki/iri_base_driver</url>
-
-  <depend package="roscpp"/>
-  <depend package="driver_base"/>
-  <depend package="dynamic_reconfigure"/>
-
-  <export>
-    <cpp cflags="-I${prefix}/include"
-         lflags="-Wl,-rpath,${prefix}/lib -L${prefix}/lib -liri_base_driver"/>
-  </export>
-
-</package>