On 8 Jun 2006 at 4:49, B Thomas wrote: Hi,
I am the maintainer of the varkon package (together with Balbir - who did not respond to my last messages. But this is another story). At the moment I have only sporadic internet access and no Linux box at all due to my relocation to Berlin. And time is at a premium at the moment as well. So if there is anybody who wants to help or even become (co-)maintainer I would appreciate it. I am open to every suggestion how to "rescue" the package. > I would be very keen that debian have a 3D CAD application. > BRL-CAD which is also packaged (but with problems) is the > alternative to varkon (see http://scientificcomputing.net). Yeah, a proper 3D CAD application is what is really missing... > I would like to maintain at least one of these (do not have the > time for more, but can help). I'll look into the varkon segfault > issue this weekend and see if something can be done. Segfault at > "build time" need not necessarily be a varkon bug. I would be really glad, if you could solve this issue. On the varkon discussion list this bug was never mentioned. So propably it's not a varkon bug (I do hope so :-). BTW the upstream maintainer is very cooperative. > On Sun, Jun 04, 2006 at 11:00:32PM +0200, Florent Bayle wrote: > > I think that "varkon" package should be removed because : > > - Today I tried to fix #328039, but after fixing "-fwritable-strings" > > bug, I > > found a missing build-dep on "libglu1-xorg-dev | libglu1-mesa-dev", and > > after > > fixing that, I got a segfault (at build time) that I was unable to fix, so > > it > > seems to be completely broken. > > - Last upload was 540 days ago, and there was no new upstream version > > since. Yes indeed, because there was no upstream version. But this does not mean that varkon is dead. At the moment some discussion is going on about a new gui (to be honest, the current gui is bit ancient). > > - Lintian report a lot of warnings on it. > > - Popcon show that it is used by very few users. That is certainly true. 3D parametric CAD is not what everybody uses everyday. Best wishes Stephan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
