Re: Shouldn't "varkon" package be removed ?
On 8 Jun 2006 at 4:49, B Thomas wrote:
Hi,
I am the maintainer of the varkon package (together with Balbir - who did not respond to my
last messages. But this is another story).
At the moment I have only sporadic internet access and no Linux box at all due to my
relocation to Berlin. And time is at a premium at the moment as well. So if there is anybody
who wants to help or even become (co-)maintainer I would appreciate it. I am open to every
suggestion how to "rescue" the package.
> I would be very keen that debian have a 3D CAD application.
> BRL-CAD which is also packaged (but with problems) is the
> alternative to varkon (see http://scientificcomputing.net).
Yeah, a proper 3D CAD application is what is really missing...
> I would like to maintain at least one of these (do not have the
> time for more, but can help). I'll look into the varkon segfault
> issue this weekend and see if something can be done. Segfault at
> "build time" need not necessarily be a varkon bug.
I would be really glad, if you could solve this issue. On the varkon discussion list this bug was
never mentioned. So propably it's not a varkon bug (I do hope so :-). BTW the upstream
maintainer is very cooperative.
> On Sun, Jun 04, 2006 at 11:00:32PM +0200, Florent Bayle wrote:
> > I think that "varkon" package should be removed because :
> > - Today I tried to fix #328039, but after fixing "-fwritable-strings" bug, I
> > found a missing build-dep on "libglu1-xorg-dev | libglu1-mesa-dev", and after
> > fixing that, I got a segfault (at build time) that I was unable to fix, so it
> > seems to be completely broken.
> > - Last upload was 540 days ago, and there was no new upstream version since.
Yes indeed, because there was no upstream version. But this does not mean that varkon is
dead. At the moment some discussion is going on about a new gui (to be honest, the current
gui is bit ancient).
> > - Lintian report a lot of warnings on it.
> > - Popcon show that it is used by very few users.
That is certainly true. 3D parametric CAD is not what everybody uses everyday.
Best wishes
Stephan
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