[Pkg-electronics-devel] Bug#895008: Kicad 5 RC build

[Carsten Schoenert]

Hello Julien,

On Wed, Apr 18, 2018 at 09:33:06AM +1000, Julien Goodwin wrote:
> I'd like to try the RC of kicad5 that's mentioned in #40, but that
> directory doesn't include the various data packages for kicad-libraries,
> do you have a build of those?

yes of course. Due the size of the (still growing) libraries we split
out those and add adjust the Recommends for the kicad package. So if you
install kicad from experimental you might need to extend the package
list to get libraries for symbols, footprint, templates and 3d models
also installed.
Due the default that Recommends will be also installed I guess that's
not really needed, kicad is recommending kiacd-libraries and this is
depending on kiacd-{footprints,symbols,templates}. The package
kicad-packages3d is 'just' a Suggests and not really needed for PCB
design, thus this package need to be installed by a dedicated extend of
the install command.

The wiki page for KiCad holds some extra information about the
relationship between the packages and also about the package names. (I
know, the site isn't fully up2date currently.)

https://wiki.debian.org/KiCad

Regards
Carsten