On Tue, 9 Oct 2018 at 19:43, W. Martin Borgert <deba...@debian.org> wrote: > Quoting Harri Haataja <harri.haat...@iki.fi>: > > It's been over five months since the release and #888712 seems to have > > markings of being fixed. Is there something still holding this back? > > Note, that FreeCAD 0.17 is already uploaded to Debian, but only to > the "experimental" distribution. You can do this: > > $ echo deb https://deb.debian.org/debian/ experimental main | \ > sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/experimental.list > $ sudo apt update > $ sudo apt install -t experimental freecad
Thank you. That actually is what I've been using on one box. Apart from the DRI3 error mentioned in another bug, I think it works. Hopefully it will drift to sid and there on. I think it's a very significant package and release.