[Pkg-electronics-devel] Bug#1133157: kicad: stale build dependency on libglew-dev

[Matthias Geiger]

On Fri, 10 Apr 2026 17:39:59 +0300 Adrian Bunk <bunk at debian.org> wrote:
> Source: kicad
> Version: 10.0.0+dfsg-1
> Severity: minor
> 
> GLEW is no longer being used:
> https://gitlab.com/kicad/code/kicad/-/commit/3fa40e05dcc8506bdb044023d9fdc5d679252020
>
Unfortunately this is yet another vendored library. libgl-dev and 
libegl-dev provide half of the needed headers. It's further complicated 
by glad, which is a generator written in python that emits the headers. 
python3-glad ships the resources needed to regenerate the header. 
However, this is far from pratical, as the exact invocation is encoded 
in the vendored header in kicad itself. So regenerating it is possible, 
though very convoluted.

best,

werdahias