Bug#904946: gmsh: OpenCASCADE gone

[Kurt Kremitzki]

On Sun, 29 Jul 2018 14:59:57 -0500 Andreas Kloeckner <inform at tiker.net>
wrote:
> Package: gmsh
> Version: 3.0.6+dfsg1-3
> Severity: normal
>
> Dear Maintainer,
>
> After upgrading to this latest version of gmsh, I noticed that support for
> OpenCASCADE appears to no longer be present. I saw in the changelog
that there
> has been a recent change in that regard:
>
> * [8eba763] Switch OpenCASCADE dependency from OCE->OCCT
>
> But the packages do not appear to declare a dependency on any *occt*
packages,
> there is no shared library depedency, and if I try to mesh a CAD
geometry, I
> get:
>
> Error : Gmsh requires OpenCASCADE to import shape
>
> Lastly, thank you for maintaining this package in Debian!
>
> Andreas
>

Thank you for your bug report Andreas. Indeed I should have done further
testing to verify that meshing works as I can easily reproduce the issue
in FreeCAD. I'll debug this and then add a simple autopkgtest to verify
I can, say, mesh a cube, to prevent this from happening in the future.