I tested the new features of KiCad 4.0 quite extensively and found some problems with the avoid & shove code. It crashes quite frequently when there are lots of obstacles.
To debug these, it would be great to have kicad-dbg package with debugging symbols. I tried to build one myself, but the package turned out empty. Is KiCad built without debugging symbols at all? Is there some dpkg magic involved? I added this to debian/control: Package: kicad-dbg Architecture: any Section: debug Depends: kicad (= ${binary:Version}), ${misc:Depends} Description: Debugging symbols for kicad And this to debian/rules: override_dh_strip: dh_strip --dbg-package=kicad-dbg