Bug#1029846: freecad: after upgrading today, not possible to launch the program

[Corcier]

‌‌Dear all,

I have had the same issue after the last update.
I managed to corner the problem finding that the *.desktop file call
freecad with the --single-instance option and freecad does not
recognise it. This option is added by the run_single-instance patch
(see 1:). The issue arises because the new 0.20.2 does not seem to
recognise the option anymore.
The snap install of the same version does recognise the option so I
should now compare the two sources (debianised sources and upstream)
but run out of time. Anybody interested in investigating about this
issue is welcome :)

Cheers !

1:
http://salsa.debian.org/science-team/freecad/-/blob/debian/0.20.2+dfsg1-3/debian/patches/run_single-instance.patch‌

On Sat, 28 Jan 2023 19:21:38 +0100 Eric Streit <eric at yojik.eu> wrote:
> Package: freecad
> Version: 0.20.2+dfsg1-3
> Severity: normal
> X-Debbugs-Cc: eric at yojik.eu
> 
> Dear Maintainer,
> 
> *** Reporter, please consider answering these questions, where
appropriate ***
> 
>    * What led up to the situation?
>         I upgraded Freecad today (28/01/2023), and it's not posible
to launch
> the program anymore from the gnome launcher.
>    * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
>      ineffective)?
>         I was able to launch it from the terminal.
>    * What was the outcome of this action?
>         It worked.
>    * What outcome did you expect instead?
> 
> *** End of the template - remove these template lines ***
> 
> 
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: bookworm/sid
>   APT prefers testing
>   APT policy: (500, 'testing')
> Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
> Foreign Architectures: i386
> 
> Kernel: Linux 6.1.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/12 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
> Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8),
LANGUAGE not set
> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
> Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
> LSM: AppArmor: enabled
> 
> Versions of packages freecad depends on:
> ii  freecad-python3  0.20.2+dfsg1-3
> 
> Versions of packages freecad recommends:
> pn  calculix-ccx  <none>
> ii  graphviz      2.42.2-7+b3
> 
> Versions of packages freecad suggests:
> pn  povray  <none>
> 
> -- no debconf information
> 
>