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[Carsten Schoenert <c.schoenert@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Am 25.02.2018 um 22:25 schrieb Nick Østergaard:
> One final question - does the kicad team guide package development on each
> of the various distros, or is it up to each distro owner to sort out how to
> best package the project for their distro?
> 
> I think every other packager shall look at the notes Debian packager
> Carsten made on https://wiki.debian.org/KiCad/ and consider if it is
> applicable on that packagers platform.

I think it's up to the package maintainers of the systems to provide
valid and usable packages to their users. This work can't be done by
upstream for all systems at least not in a acceptable quality due the
lack of time and man power. In the end package names shouldn't really
matter as the GUI around the package management should make it easy to
the users to install the needed packages.

> For fedora, I would like to see a wxpython compat package built with gtk2.
> I think debian managed to do this, but I am not sure if this is true or how
> this was done.

Have simply a look at debian/control [1] in the source package. All
versions of python-wxgtk3.0 are build against libgtk2.0. Even
python-wxgtk4.0 is still build against libgtk2.0. For more information I
suggest to get in contact with the maintainers [2].

[1]
https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/freewx/wx.git/tree/debian/control?id=refs/heads/wxpy3.0-debian
[2] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/freewx-maint

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Regards
Carsten Schoenert