[Pkg-electronics-devel] ITP: savvycan -- GUI CAN bus reverse engineering and capture tool

[Christopher Obbard]

Hi all,

OK, I managed to spare some time tonight and get the packaging mostly done...

It now builds properly, against Qt6 and I imported the upstream Qt6
support patches (some Qt5 serialport library has gone from Debian,
switching to Qt6 was just easier for me).

I've fixed almost all of the packaging issues and the app installs &
seems to run properly.

There is some issue for me running under Gnome/Wayland (was there with
older version & Qt5 too) where the GUI seems to not render correctly
around tables etc. Running `QT_QPA_PLATFORM=xcb SavvyCAN` seems to
make it appear OK, but I don't think this is optimal.

I didn't test the app with a real canbus adapter yet (my canable
adapter is hiding somewhere in a box somewhere due to moving house
recently), so that will be the final test I do before uploading the
package into NEW queue.

Comments on packaging welcome at
https://salsa.debian.org/electronics-team/savvycan/-/merge_requests/1


Cheers!

Christopher Obbard

On Wed, 26 Nov 2025 at 20:46, Christopher Obbard <obbardc at debian.org> wrote:
>
> Hi Alexandre,
>
> I created https://salsa.debian.org/electronics-team/savvycan and
> imported the latest tagged upstream source (v220).
>
> I have also created some basic template packaging in a draft merge
> request at https://salsa.debian.org/electronics-team/savvycan/-/merge_requests/1
> and will move it forward as and when I get time.
>
> It doesn't built yet as it is just a template, but please add
> comments/feedback if you can.
>
> Not making any promises for an upload timeline, but I will keep you
> updated. I'll try to get it ready in the next few months as I really
> like & do use this tool !
>
> Cheers!
>
> On Thu, 26 Jun 2025 at 17:28, Alexandre Detiste
> <alexandre.detiste at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > Are you still interested working on this project?
> >
> > Somewhat similar tool asammdf is now in the NEW queue
> > and I can tackle this one too.
> >
> > Greetings