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[Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>]

The reason it does not replace your existing fp-lib-table is it would
overwrite any changes that you made to it which would result in a lot of
unhappy users (me included).  We could use a merge tool to update
fp-lib-tabe but I think this would be more effort than what it's worth.
 Filing a bug report isn't necessary since it's technically not a bug.
We should have done a better job of letting users know that we were
going to remove footprint libraries from github so there wouldn't have
been any surprises.  In the future we need to do a better job of letting
users know about footprint library removals and additions.  Announcing
this only on the dev mailing list is not adequate.  We should also make
announcements on the users mailing lists and forums.

On 12/28/2015 8:49 AM, Dan Walmsley wrote:
> Ok
> 
>    I have to replace my AppData\Roaming\Kicad\fp-lib-table file with:
> 
> https://raw.githubusercontent.com/KiCad/kicad-library/master/template/fp-lib-table.for-github
> it seems the installer must not be updating this file when Iv moved from
> old versions?
> 
> After doing this I am able to access all libraries.
> 
> Shall I file a bug on launch pad?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Dan
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> From: dan@xxxxxxxxxxx
> To: kicad-developers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Date: Mon, 28 Dec 2015 13:21:25 +0000
> Subject: [Kicad-developers] Error updating standard Kicad footprint
> libraries from Github
> 
> Can I draw your attention to this post on the forum:
> 
> https://forum.kicad.info/t/github-footprints-problem/1935/4
> 
> I have been having this problem over a week now on the Stable 4.0.1
> build, I can get around it be using Cvpcb to assign footprints.
> 
> But it prevents footprint assignment from eeschema.
> 
> Let me know if I can give further assistance debugging.
> 
> Dan
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