[Pkg-electronics-devel] Bug#879236: eeschema: failed to load linear.lib (kicad-common 4.0.5 only)

[Carsten Schoenert]

Control: tags -1 pending

Hello jeff,

On Fri, Oct 20, 2017 at 11:39:26PM +0200, jeff wrote:
> Package: kicad-common
> Version: 4.0.5+dfsg1-4
> Severity: normal
> 
> Dear Maintainer,
> 
> When i launch eeschema, i have an error message about linear.lib and linear.dcm
> 
> If we open the file "linear.dcm", at ligne 664, there is a # at the ligne end.
> I don't have any error message when i delete this #.
> => In /usr/share/kicad/library/linear.dcm, replace $ENDCMP# by $ENDCMP
> 
> I did not have this error with kicad-common from testing (4.0.7 instead of 4.0.5).
> 
> Please, could you modify or update this package?

the origin of this problem is #859409 and #860093.

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=859409
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=860093

There is a ongoing work to bring the recent KiCad version to backports
for Jessie and Stretch. If all goes well the upload will happen this
weekend.

Regards
Carsten