[Pkg-electronics-devel] Bug#921259: KiCad 5.1 appears to be 6.0 (experimental)

[Carsten Schoenert]

Hello Gert,

Am 03.02.19 um 23:19 schrieb Geert Stappers:
> On Sun, Feb 03, 2019 at 07:39:20PM +0100, Nick Østergaard wrote:
>> This is not wrong, this is as expected.
> 
> Please elaborate

this version number (6.0.0-rc1) is currently hard coded within the CMake
 files of kicad.

> $ grep 6.0.0-rc1 CMakeModules/*
> CMakeModules/KiCadVersion.cmake:set( KICAD_VERSION "6.0.0-rc1-unknown" )

I'm currently to lazy to do any kind of patching this as this would
resulting in differing the showed version number in Debian from all
other packaging systems for KiCad.

The reason behind the current used number '6.0.0' is grounded on the
original next planed version number for KiCad. Unfortunately version
5.0.x has some significant issues regarding the changes happen to
wxWidgets not only in Debian. So the KiCad project decided to do a
version 5.1.x for fixing these issues and adding GTK+3 support to KiCad
especially in/for Linux.

This version string is no real problem, I guess Debian is now also hit
by the newer GLM version which seems not be usable for the current HEAD
in 5.1.

-- 
Regards
Carsten Schoenert