Bug#888026: Please package & upload freecad 0.17

[Kurt Kremitzki]

On 10/9/18 11:42 AM, W. Martin Borgert wrote:
> Dear Harri Haataja,
> 
> 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
> 
> Good luck!
> 

Also, I have a new upload ready on Salsa [1] which provides a Qt 5 build
and should be enough to get the package out of Experimental and
eventually into Testing. I am just waiting to get upload permissions for
FreeCAD as I've only just become a DM.

[1] https://salsa.debian.org/science-team/freecad