[Pkg-electronics-devel] Bug#1067884: kicad: KiCad no longer recognize its own libraries after update

[Istvan Kiss]

Package: kicad
Version: 7.0.11+dfsg-1
Severity: important
X-Debbugs-Cc: behelfsmassig at gmail.com

Dear Maintainer,

after a regular system update, KiCad no longer seems to recognize any of the built-in libraries or footprints. When I hit Place / Add Symbol in the schematic editor, all of the library 
names are listed, but without any content. I cannot even add an ordinary resistor or capacitor, EVERY symbol is missing.

Under Preferences / Manage Symbol Libraries I've checked: every default library is activated, the corresponding library files exist on my computer, and their location is correctly 
registered in the software. It's just that KiCad cannot import them for some reason. Only those libraries can be used that I have created myself. Same applies to footprints.

I'm not sure if it is really a bug in KiCad or just a mismatch between the versions of KiCad and its libraries, but I am not sure how to check. Also, I am using the testing repo, so 
I cannot try v8.0.1 without adding the unstable repository (which I would like to avoid if possible).

How shall I proceed?

Thank you very much for your help!

Istvan


-- System Information:
Debian Release: trixie/sid
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable-security'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 6.6.15-amd64 (SMP w/20 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=hu_HU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=hu_HU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages kicad depends on:
ii  libc6                            2.37-15
ii  libcairo2                        1.18.0-1+b1
ii  libcurl4                         8.5.0-2
ii  libfontconfig1                   2.15.0-1.1
ii  libfreetype6                     2.13.2+dfsg-1+b1
ii  libgcc-s1                        14-20240201-3
ii  libgl1                           1.7.0-1
ii  libglew2.2                       2.2.0-4+b1
ii  libglib2.0-0                     2.78.4-1
ii  libglu1-mesa [libglu1]           9.0.2-1.1
ii  libgtk-3-0                       3.24.41-1
ii  libharfbuzz0b                    8.3.0-2
ii  libngspice0                      42+ds-2
ii  libocct-data-exchange-7.6        7.6.3+dfsg1-7+b1
ii  libocct-foundation-7.6           7.6.3+dfsg1-7+b1
ii  libocct-modeling-algorithms-7.6  7.6.3+dfsg1-7+b1
ii  libocct-modeling-data-7.6        7.6.3+dfsg1-7+b1
ii  libocct-ocaf-7.6                 7.6.3+dfsg1-7+b1
ii  libodbc2                         2.3.12-1+b1
ii  libpixman-1-0                    0.42.2-1+b1
ii  libpython3.11                    3.11.8-1
ii  libstdc++6                       14-20240201-3
ii  libwxbase3.2-1                   3.2.4+dfsg-3
ii  libwxgtk-gl3.2-1                 3.2.4+dfsg-3
ii  libwxgtk3.2-1                    3.2.4+dfsg-3
ii  python3                          3.11.6-1
ii  python3-wxgtk4.0                 4.2.1+dfsg-3
ii  zlib1g                           1:1.3.dfsg-3+b1

Versions of packages kicad recommends:
ii  kicad-demos      7.0.11+dfsg-1
ii  kicad-libraries  7.0.11+dfsg-1
ii  xsltproc         1.1.35-1

Versions of packages kicad suggests:
pn  extra-xdg-menus                                                     <none>
pn  kicad-doc-ca | kicad-doc-de | kicad-doc-en | kicad-doc-es | kicad-  <none>
    doc-fr | kicad-doc-id | kicad-doc-it | kicad-doc-ja | kicad-doc-pl
     | kicad-doc-ru | kicad-doc-zh
ii  kicad-packages3d                                                    8.0.1-1

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