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

[Fabián Inostroza]

I tested the package from experimental and unfortunately eeschema is
too slow when compiled against wxgtk (gtk3). It is a know problem when
wxgtk is compiled against gtk3.
So for now I'm using the mentioned workaround (solves my problem).

2018-04-14 4:59 GMT-03:00 Carsten Schoenert <c.schoenert at t-online.de>:
> Hello Fabián,
>
> Am 14.04.18 um 08:42 schrieb Fabián Inostroza:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm running debian testing and the problem is there also, I'm using
>> testing packages only.
>> The package python-wxgtk3.0 was updated to 3.0.2.0+dfsg-7 on
>> 2018-04-10, reverting to 3.0.2.0+dfsg-6 fixes the problem.
>
> no, it solves the problem not. This is just a workaround to be able to
> get the existing old packages in testing working again. The current
> state in testing for KiCad is RC buggy and once someone is open up a bug
> report about this the kicad packages will get removed from testing if we
> can't get rid of such RC things before.
>
> As written in this report I'm not intending to spend any work on the old
> version of KiCad in testing and use my time for getting the next version
> of KiCad packaged. I have no time to do both.
>
> Once the RC2 of KiCad5 is released I will upload this to unstable
> instead of experimental. So I want to suggest to test the packages in
> experimental right now as they will get into unstable in the near future.
>
> Otherwise it's currently better to use stable if you want KiCad to use
> on a stable base. But without testers and bug triage on KiCad5 it will
> take a long time to get KiCad5 into testing.
>
> --
> Regards
> Carsten