[Pkg-electronics-devel] Bug#909136: kicad: missing support for STEP export

[Carsten Schoenert]

Hello Aurelien,

Am 18.09.18 um 22:01 schrieb Aurelien Jarno:
> Package: kicad
> Version: 5.0.0+dfsg1-2
> Severity: wishlist
> Tags: patch
> 
> The kicad package in Debian doesn't support exporting PCB into
> STEP-File, the option in the menu is disabled. This is because the
> kicad2step binary is not shipped in the package. However it is
> correctly built, so it's just a matter of updating the install file
> as follow:

nice catch!

> --- a/debian/kicad.install.in
> +++ b/debian/kicad.install.in
> @@ -13,6 +13,7 @@
>  usr/bin/idfcyl
>  usr/bin/idfrect
>  usr/bin/kicad
> +usr/bin/kicad2step
>  usr/bin/pcb_calculator
>  usr/bin/pcbnew
>  usr/bin/pl_editor
> 
> Would it be possible to do that in the next upload?

Of course! Thanks for this report, I will prepare a new upload the next
days I guess, version 5.0.1 didn't had get a release date until now.


-- 
Regards
Carsten Schoenert