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[Fabrizio Tappero <fabrizio.tappero@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hello,
I updated the script according to Dick's suggestion and added some
modifications in it for "yum" people so that we are now a bigger
family. I also uploaded it to the web:
http://www.kicad-pcb.org/display/KICAD/Download

just a question, Dick, why don't we like "sudo apt-get build-dep
kicad"? you removed it. Shouldn't be better to have it there? just in
case in the future we add some libs, some apt-get guy detect it but we
do not update this script accordingly.

Dick, thanks for the "make package" thing. I think it is great ! I
have done some googleing and noticed that for instance slackware Linux
does maintain a "recent" version (03/2013) of KiCad:
http://slackbuilds.org/result/?search=kicad&sv=14.0

Debian people do it too but it is 1.5 years old. I contacted the
maintainer but mail bounced back.

There is also and unofficial Debian/Ubuntu apt-get repo that looks
very official and that we could use:
http://www.apt-get.org/

The question is kind of philosophical, who should maintain packages
and distribute open-source software? the developers of the software or
the guys doing Linux distros?

Well guys, I think lots of progress on this subject has been made
since two weeks ago, I think cmake is the way to make .deb. I think
the script on the web is great for the people who want to compile. We
just need an additional step adding Adam's server in the equation?

Adam, I'll have a look at Karl's stuff and contribute to the cmake but
first I'd like to fix all this .desktop files and especially this
icons issue. It seems to me that there is a little bit of a mess
there.

Regards
Fabrizio









On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 9:13 PM, Adam Wolf
<adamwolf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> There have been some discussion in Debian land about changing how they
> package Python-y stuff, that will make a world of difference for me.  It
> looks like it's going through, so there's light at the end of that tunnel
> too.
>
> Adam Wolf
> W&L
>
>
> On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 2:10 PM, Dick Hollenbeck <dick@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>
>> CMake now builds a primitive *.deb file on Ubuntu/Mint/Debian.
>>
>>
>> $ make package
>>
>>
>> It has no dependencies, so it about like using checkinstall.
>>
>>
>> Dick
>>
>>
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