[Pkg-electronics-devel] KiCad 7.0 backport to bullseye

Scott Talbert swt at techie.net
Tue Jan 17 15:50:40 GMT 2023


On Sat, 14 Jan 2023, Simon Richter wrote:

> - There is no way to depend on a wxPython version that uses a particular 
> version of wxWidgets
>
> KiCad should be the only package that actually has a strong version 
> constraint because it shares its own objects with wxPython, so we could 
> probably make a stronger dependency here for the backport, but it would be 
> cleaner to have a "wxpython-linked-against-3.2" virtual package or something 
> similar.

I think it should be safe to depend on wxpython4.0 >= 4.2.0.  wxPython 
versions are tied to specific wxWidgets versions and wxPython 4.2.0 can 
only be built with wxWidgets 3.2.

Scott



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