Bug#888026: Please package & upload freecad 0.17

[Harri Haataja]

On Tue, 9 Oct 2018 at 19:43, W. Martin Borgert <debacle at debian.org> wrote:
> Quoting Harri Haataja <harri.haataja at iki.fi>:
> > It's been over five months since the release and #888712 seems to have
> > markings of being fixed. Is there something still holding this back?
>
> Note, that FreeCAD 0.17 is already uploaded to Debian, but only to
> the "experimental" distribution. You can do this:
>
> $ echo deb https://deb.debian.org/debian/ experimental main | \
>      sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/experimental.list
> $ sudo apt update
> $ sudo apt install -t experimental freecad

Thank you. That actually is what I've been using on one box.
Apart from the DRI3 error mentioned in another bug, I think it works.
Hopefully it will drift to sid and there on. I think it's a very
significant package and release.