[Pkg-electronics-devel] Bug#895008: kicad: can't start pcbnew

[Carsten Schoenert]

Hello Leonardo and Aurel,

On Fri, Apr 06, 2018 at 03:39:30PM +0200, Leonardo Canducci wrote:
> Just to clarify: I'm running sid and gnome with debian repository only.
> Kicad did work a couple of months ago.
> 
> Downgrading python-wxgtk3.0 fixes the problem here too.
> 
> Leonardo
> 
> 2018-04-06 15:19 GMT+02:00 Aurelien Jacobs <aurel at gnuage.org>:
> 
> > Hello,
> >
> > I can confirm this issue.
> >
> > Since I upgraded my sid install today, pcbnew fails to start with those
> > kind of messages :
...
> > I reproduced this issue on 2 different machines (both updated to latest
> > sid today).
> >
> > It seems to be realted to latest version of python-wxgtk3.0.
> > When I downgrade this package to 3.0.2.0+dfsg-6 (from buster) pcbnew
> > starts working again.

thanks for checking this, I'm on testing and there isn't this issue
happen.
src:wxpython3.0 is depending on src:wxwidgets3.0-gtk3 and this package
is on a way of a transition [1]. So one day kicad would be binNMU'ed. I'll
have a look at this on the weekend.

[1] https://release.debian.org/transitions/html/wxwidgets3.0-gtk3.html

Regards
Carsten