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[Nick Østergaard <oe.nick@xxxxxxxxx>]

2018-02-25 23:18 GMT+01:00 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.
>

Hence I mentioned that they should consider what have already or is being
done for debian and the PPA.

>
> > 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].
>

Just that the package script says it depends on gtk2 does not show me the
acutual build config used, which is what I have been looking for. But I
believe you.


>
> [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
>
> --
> Regards
> Carsten Schoenert
>
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