Bug#888026: freecad: please package upcoming 0.17 for experimental

[W. Martin Borgert]

Kurt, many thanks for the quick reply and your packing work!

On 2018-01-22 15:03, kkremitzki at gmail.com wrote:
> Yes, I am looking into packaging PySide 2, although the upstream is
> still a little ways out from being ready for a release [1], e.g. they
> haven't picked an initial version number.

Maybe PySide 2 should go to experimental then?
 
> Also, beyond trying to get OpenCASCADE 7.2 packaged (which I would
> appreciate any additional feedback for, as it's quite large for my 2nd
> Debian package!),

You should probably ask for feedback in the Debian science team,
that maintains OCE, FreeCAD, and netgen.

The only minor point from my side: For such a large package as
OpenCASCADE it is probably a good idea, not to have the complete
version history (4280 commits) in the Debian git repo, but only
the releases in the "upstream" branch, with added debian-dir in
the "master" branch. But that's purely matter of taste...

> we are also wanting to update the netgen package both
> to v6.2.x from its current 4.9.13, as well as to compile it against the
> new OpenCASCADE 7.2 package I'm working on.

Could you open a bug against the netgen package asking for a new
package version? And block this bug #888026 by it? TIA!