[Pkg-electronics-devel] Bug#911965: kicad: Add libngspice to dependancy list

[Felix Salfelder]

On Sat, Oct 27, 2018 at 11:09:47AM +0200, Carsten Schoenert wrote:
> That's all correct, but right now upstream is opening libngspice.so,
> *not* libngspice.so.0!

which i suggested to fix. in the package and (also) upstream.

> Upstream
> stated they had problems to get this working correctly (while this
> feature was added in 2016) and they did the fallback to use dlopen
> globally here.

To me, it looked more like they had good reasons not to link. and i can't
see anything wrong with calling dlopen in that situation. I did not know
anybody is even trying to change it. YMMV.

> Because of this I won't invest more time here, there is no real gain on
> doing this.

fair enough.

> > also, the package name libngspice0-dev seems to be wrong. that should
> > have produced a lintian warning...?
> 
> No and it never did.
> [..]
> $ grep Package:
> /var/lib/apt/lists/*_debian_dists_testing_main_binary-amd64_Packages |
> grep "\-dev$"

My memory was corrupted on this, thanks for the clarification!

best
felix