I think this is definitely doable. Can we do this on Miguel's machine? Let me know if we can't.
Adam Wolf On Mon, May 2, 2016 at 3:07 PM, Wayne Stambaugh <[email protected]> wrote: > On 5/2/2016 3:44 PM, Chris Pavlina wrote: > > To be entirely honest and somewhat opinionated, I have no problem telling > > Debian users that they chose a distribution that tampers with packages > and so > > they get to live with it. KiCad's easy to build anyway, should they > decide they > > don't like that choice. > > I'm fine with that as well. I would rather avoid have users build kicad > from source though. > > > > > Perhaps we could provide our own Debian and Ubuntu packages, like the > Ubuntu > > nightly PPA. > > This is a better alternative than building from source. > > > > > On Mon, May 02, 2016 at 03:35:48PM -0400, Wayne Stambaugh wrote: > >> On 5/2/2016 3:25 PM, Nick Østergaard wrote: > >>> 2016-05-02 21:09 GMT+02:00 Wayne Stambaugh <[email protected]>: > >>>> Do we have any Debian developers on our mailing list? I though I saw > a > >>>> Simon Richter on Planet Debian. Is that you Simon? Can someone tell > me > >>>> why the Debian package devs decided to build KiCad with the GitHub > >>>> plugin disabled? Is it a build issue or a licensing issue? > >>> > >>> Because of OpenSSL licensing stuff... > >>> > >>> Citing the debian packager: > >>> > >>> "I had to remove the Github plugin from the build process, because this > >>> plugins needed to compile a binary which is linked to GPLed libraries > >>> and to OpenSSL at the same time, which triggers a fata Lintian error > >>> about license incompatibility. However as the package kicad-common > >>> provides all the know pretty libraies, and as the default template > >>> declares those libraries, there is no immediate drawback. > >>> > >>> Best regards, Georges." > >>> > >>> -- https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=794311 > >> > >> No immediate drawback for Debian when the bug reports come to us. I > >> guess we tell users no github plugin for you. They will have to update > >> their fp-lib-table accordingly. > >> > >>> > >>>> Avhttp is > >>>> licensed under the boost license so it shouldn't be due to licensing > >>>> issues. A warning would have been nice before we were blind sided by > a > >>>> bunch of bug reports. I don't have time to look it up right now so if > >>>> someone has time to do some digging I would appreciate it. > >>> > >>> I think this has been mentioned on the list before. Part of the goal > >>> with the curl instead of avhttp was to remove the dependency on > >>> openssl, which debian rejects... Because libcurl can use gnutls in > >>> debian. > >>> > >>> I know it is hard to remeber everything, but people tried to warn us > >>> in https://lists.launchpad.net/kicad-developers/msg22543.html > >>> > >>> I got so confused with all the agressive reverts of the curl stuff > >>> that I don't even know if we use that now. > >> > >> We now use libcurl so if Debain's libcurl is compliant than there should > >> be no issues packaging with the github plugin enabled for the > >> development branch. > >> > >>> > >>>> > >>>> Thanks, > >>>> > >>>> Wayne > >>>> > >>>> _______________________________________________ > >>>> Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > >>>> Post to : [email protected] > >>>> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > >>>> More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > >> Post to : [email protected] > >> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > >> More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > Post to : [email protected] > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >
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