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 /../share/kicad/template, and if that isn't found,
fall back to /../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
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++65.2.1-16
pn libwxbase3.0-0
pn libwxgtk3.0-0
ii libx11-6 2:1.6.3-1
ii libxext6 2:1.3.3-1
pn zlib-bin
kicad recommends no packages.
Versions of packages kicad suggests:
pn extra-xdg-menus
ii kicad-doc-en 0.20141025+bzr4029-2
