Package: kicad Severity: wishlist According to https://lists.launchpad.net/kicad-developers/msg20319.html a new stable release of KiCAD is imminent, and release candidate work will happen on https://code.launchpad.net/~stambaughw/kicad/4.0
As far as I can tell, there a number of important changes in respect to the current Debian kicad packaging files: - Versioning: It looks like this release will receive a proper version, 4.0, making the previous date-based version obsolete. - Documentation and Libraries: Both were previously moved to their separate projects, but they don't seem to be built/installed as part of the regular kicad build procedure any more. It may be necessary to write explicit installation rules or build them as separate packages. - Plugins: Some components are built both standalone and as plugins that may be loaded from a different module when needed. These are currently installed as /usr/bin/_*.kiface - probably not the best place. This should be mentioned to upstream, so they are placed into /usr/lib/kicad/ or similar instead. Also, the standalone version of cvpcb is gone. It lives on in plugin form. - Paths: It looks like it's no longer necessary to patch the template path in prjconfig.cpp. The code will consult the environment variable KICAD first, then try to use <executable path>/../share/kicad/template, and if that isn't found, fall back to <executable path>/../share/template. - Boost: Currently, the build scripts will automatically download boost 1.54 unless -DKICAD_SKIP_BOOST=ON is passed to cmake. I have successfully built kicad with the boost 1.58 dev packages in Debian, but it may be necessary to hardcode a certain boost version or rely on the downloaded version instead. A list of the required sub-packages is attached below. These are the things I discovered while porting the previous debian/ files to the new release. I haven't been successful so far, due to the missing doc and library installation rules, but compilation was successful. There is currently no installable package for stretch, so I'm a bit desperate to get kicad 4.0 packaged as soon as possible. Is someone working on implementing the necessary changes already? If yes, I'll gladly support them instead. These are my build dependencies (changes: Boost dependency and minimum cmake version according to CMakeLists.txt): Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 9), quilt, libx11-dev, libglu1-mesa-dev, libgl1-mesa-dev, mesa-common-dev, libwxgtk3.0-dev, libboost-dev, libboost-context-dev, libboost-date-time-dev, libboost-filesystem-dev, libboost-iostreams-dev, libboost-locale-dev, libboost-program-options-dev, libboost-regex-dev, libboost-system-dev, libboost-thread-dev, cmake (>= 2.8.4), imagemagick -- System Information: Debian Release: stretch/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'testing-updates'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386, armel, armhf Kernel: Linux 4.1.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init) Versions of packages kicad depends on: pn kicad-common <none> ii libc6 2.19-19 ii libgcc1 1:5.2.1-16 ii libgl1-mesa-glx [libgl1] 10.6.5-1 ii libglu1-mesa [libglu1] 9.0.0-2 ii libstdc++6 5.2.1-16 pn libwxbase3.0-0 <none> pn libwxgtk3.0-0 <none> ii libx11-6 2:1.6.3-1 ii libxext6 2:1.3.3-1 pn zlib-bin <none> kicad recommends no packages. Versions of packages kicad suggests: pn extra-xdg-menus <none> ii kicad-doc-en 0.20141025+bzr4029-2
