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[Adam Wolf <adamwolf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I think this is definitely doable.  Can we do this on Miguel's machine?
Let me know if we can't.

Adam Wolf

On Mon, May 2, 2016 at 3:07 PM, Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> On 5/2/2016 3:44 PM, Chris Pavlina wrote:
> > To be entirely honest and somewhat opinionated, I have no problem telling
> > Debian users that they chose a distribution that tampers with packages
> and so
> > they get to live with it. KiCad's easy to build anyway, should they
> decide they
> > don't like that choice.
>
> I'm fine with that as well.  I would rather avoid have users build kicad
> from source though.
>
> >
> > Perhaps we could provide our own Debian and Ubuntu packages, like the
> Ubuntu
> > nightly PPA.
>
> This is a better alternative than building from source.
>
> >
> > On Mon, May 02, 2016 at 03:35:48PM -0400, Wayne Stambaugh wrote:
> >> On 5/2/2016 3:25 PM, Nick Østergaard wrote:
> >>> 2016-05-02 21:09 GMT+02:00 Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>:
> >>>> Do we have any Debian developers on our mailing list?  I though I saw
> a
> >>>> Simon Richter on Planet Debian.  Is that you Simon?  Can someone tell
> me
> >>>> why the Debian package devs decided to build KiCad with the GitHub
> >>>> plugin disabled?  Is it a build issue or a licensing issue?
> >>>
> >>> Because of OpenSSL licensing stuff...
> >>>
> >>> Citing the debian packager:
> >>>
> >>> "I had to remove the Github plugin from the build process, because this
> >>> plugins needed to compile a binary which is linked to GPLed libraries
> >>> and to OpenSSL at the same time, which triggers a fata Lintian error
> >>> about license incompatibility. However as the package kicad-common
> >>> provides all the know pretty libraies, and as the default template
> >>> declares those libraries, there is no immediate drawback.
> >>>
> >>> Best regards, Georges."
> >>>
> >>> -- https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=794311
> >>
> >> No immediate drawback for Debian when the bug reports come to us.  I
> >> guess we tell users no github plugin for you.  They will have to update
> >> their fp-lib-table accordingly.
> >>
> >>>
> >>>> Avhttp is
> >>>> licensed under the boost license so it shouldn't be due to licensing
> >>>> issues.  A warning would have been nice before we were blind sided by
> a
> >>>> bunch of bug reports.  I don't have time to look it up right now so if
> >>>> someone has time to do some digging I would appreciate it.
> >>>
> >>> I think this has been mentioned on the list before. Part of the goal
> >>> with the curl instead of avhttp was to remove the dependency on
> >>> openssl, which debian rejects... Because libcurl can use gnutls in
> >>> debian.
> >>>
> >>> I know it is hard to remeber everything, but people tried to warn us
> >>> in https://lists.launchpad.net/kicad-developers/msg22543.html
> >>>
> >>> I got so confused with all the agressive reverts of the curl stuff
> >>> that I don't even know if we use that now.
> >>
> >> We now use libcurl so if Debain's libcurl is compliant than there should
> >> be no issues packaging with the github plugin enabled for the
> >> development branch.
> >>
> >>>
> >>>>
> >>>> Thanks,
> >>>>
> >>>> Wayne
> >>>>
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