diff --git a/colcon.pkg b/colcon.pkg
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--- a/colcon.pkg
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@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-{
-    "name": "cyclonedds"
-}
diff --git a/package.xml b/package.xml
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--- /dev/null
+++ b/package.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
+<?xml version="1.0"?>
+<?xml-model href="http://download.ros.org/schema/package_format3.xsd" schematypens="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"?>
+<package format="3">
+    <name>cyclonedds</name>
+    <version>0.1.0</version>
+    <description>Eclipse Cyclone DDS is a very performant and robust open-source DDS implementation. Cyclone DDS is developed completely in the open as an Eclipse IoT project.</description>
+    <maintainer email="cyclonedds-dev@eclipse.org">Eclipse Foundation, Inc.</maintainer>
+    <license>Eclipse Public License 2.0</license>
+    <url type="website">https://projects.eclipse.org/projects/iot.cyclonedds</url>
+
+    <buildtool_depend>cmake</buildtool_depend>
+    <buildtool_depend>maven</buildtool_depend>
+    <buildtool_depend>java</buildtool_depend>
+
+    <export>
+        <build_type>cmake</build_type>
+    </export>
+</package>
+