Package: kicad
Version: 4.0.5+dfsg1-4
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,

Apologies if I'm doing something obviously wrong, but this is the first time 
I've
picked up Kicad for years and in the past it's "just worked".

Progressing from eeschema via a netlist file to pcbnew, I get

Error loading netlist.
IO_ERROR: Footprint library path '/usr/share/kicad/modules/
Buttons_Switches_THT.pretty' does not exist
from /build/kicad-OLDpkC/kicad-4.0.5+dfsg1/pcbnew/
kicad_plugin.cpp : Load(): line 283

The problem would appear to be that there are directories named like

Buttons_Switches_ThroughHole.pretty
Capacitors_ThroughHole.pretty

and so on, while the files femplate/fp-lib-table.for-pretty and
template/fp-lib-table.for-github have

(lib (name Buttons_Switches_THT)(type KiCad)(uri 
${KISYSMOD}/Buttons_Switches_THT.pretty)(options "")(descr "Buttons and 
switches, through hole"))

and so on.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 9.0
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
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                    4.0.5+dfsg1-4
ii  libboost-atomic1.62.0           1.62.0+dfsg-4
ii  libboost-chrono1.62.0           1.62.0+dfsg-4
ii  libboost-context1.62.0          1.62.0+dfsg-4
ii  libboost-date-time1.62.0        1.62.0+dfsg-4
ii  libboost-filesystem1.62.0       1.62.0+dfsg-4
ii  libboost-iostreams1.62.0        1.62.0+dfsg-4
ii  libboost-locale1.62.0           1.62.0+dfsg-4
ii  libboost-program-options1.62.0  1.62.0+dfsg-4
ii  libboost-regex1.62.0            1.62.0+dfsg-4
ii  libboost-system1.62.0           1.62.0+dfsg-4
ii  libboost-thread1.62.0           1.62.0+dfsg-4
ii  libc6                           2.24-9
ii  libcairo2                       1.14.8-1
ii  libcurl3-gnutls                 7.52.1-3
ii  libgcc1                         1:6.3.0-11
ii  libgl1-mesa-glx [libgl1]        13.0.6-1
ii  libglew2.0                      2.0.0-3+b1
ii  libglu1-mesa [libglu1]          9.0.0-2.1
ii  libgomp1                        6.3.0-11
ii  libpython2.7                    2.7.13-2
ii  libstdc++6                      6.3.0-11
ii  libwxbase3.0-0v5                3.0.2+dfsg-3
ii  libwxgtk3.0-0v5                 3.0.2+dfsg-3
ii  python                          2.7.13-2
ii  python-wxgtk3.0                 3.0.2.0+dfsg-3+b1
pn  python:any                      <none>

Versions of packages kicad recommends:
ii  xsltproc  1.1.29-2.1

Versions of packages kicad suggests:
pn  extra-xdg-menus                                                      <none>
pn  kicad-doc-ca | kicad-doc-de | kicad-doc-en | kicad-doc-es | kicad-d  <none>

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