Bug#546719: freecad needs pivy which is not available

[Teemu Ikonen]

On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 11:18 AM, David Goodenough
<david.goodenough at btconnect.com> wrote:
> When I try to go into the 2D Draw workbench, freecad tries to load pivy and it
> can not find it.  It is not a dependency, and as far as I can tell is not
> available as a Debian package.  Freecad seems to recommend python-pivy, but
> this does not exist, and as the 2D Draw workbench is somewhat fundamental to
> using freecad it would seem that it should be a dependency not a
> recommendation.

Hi,

Pivy has been packaged (see git.debian.org), and uploaded to NEW but
had some problems which will be fixed next week.

As for the depends vs. recommends: Since freecad does run without pivy
and you can use it to view CAD models, for example, I don't think
upgrading the dependency is needed. Apt will automatically install all
available recommended packages so the drafting module will soon start
to work out of the box.

Teemu