Package: kicad Version: 4.0.1+dfsg1-1 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer,
Looking at the debian/changelog it seems like Python scripting support is supposed to work with the latest version of kicad, however the Python extension needed for that isn't being installed into the kicad package at build time. The build system spits out the appropriate files in ./debian/tmp/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/ and copying the .py and .so files there into the right place in /usr/local seems to work so it's probably just a matter of adding those to kicad.install. Though maybe it would be better to provide a separate python-kicad package, I checked the Python policy and it seems while that's not mandatory for packages providing public extensions it is encouraged. Either way I'm thinking that maybe that also makes dh pick up the extension automatically or something. Looking at the output of ldd for the _pcbnew.so it looks like it's statically linked against the rest of pcbnew so it could be provided as a seperate package but I'm not sure how the kiface stuff works so maybe that's a red herring. -- System Information: Debian Release: stretch/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 4.3.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages kicad depends on: ii kicad-common 4.0.1+dfsg1-1 ii libboost-context1.58.0 1.58.0+dfsg-4.1 ii libboost-date-time1.58.0 1.58.0+dfsg-4.1 ii libboost-filesystem1.58.0 1.58.0+dfsg-4.1 ii libboost-iostreams1.58.0 1.58.0+dfsg-4.1 ii libboost-locale1.58.0 1.58.0+dfsg-4.1 ii libboost-program-options1.58.0 1.58.0+dfsg-4.1 ii libboost-regex1.58.0 1.58.0+dfsg-4.1 ii libboost-system1.58.0 1.58.0+dfsg-4.1 ii libboost-thread1.58.0 1.58.0+dfsg-4.1 ii libc6 2.21-6 ii libgcc1 1:5.3.1-6 ii libgl1-mesa-glx [libgl1] 11.1.1-2 ii libglew1.10 1.10.0-3 ii libglew1.13 1.13.0-2 ii libglu1-mesa [libglu1] 9.0.0-2.1 ii libgomp1 5.3.1-6 ii libstdc++6 5.3.1-6 ii libwxbase3.0-0v5 3.0.2+dfsg-1.2 ii libwxgtk3.0-0v5 3.0.2+dfsg-1.2 kicad recommends no packages. Versions of packages kicad suggests: ii extra-xdg-menus 1.0-4 ii kicad-doc-en 4.0.0~rc1a-3 -- no debconf information
