Bug#605914: ITP: librecad -- 2D CAD program (qt4 port of QCad)

[Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net>]

On 10/21/2010 11:29 AM, Scott Howard wrote:
> Package: wnpp
> Severity: wishlist
> Owner: Scott Howard<showard314@gmail.com>
>
> * Package name    : librecad
>    Version         : 1.0.0beta4 (won't propagate to testing until it's out of
> beta)
>    Upstream Author : Ries van Twisk<ries@vantwisk.nl>
> * URL             : http://www.caduntu.org/
> * License         :  GPL-2
>    Programming Lang:  C++
>    Description     : 2D CAD program (qt4 port of QCad)
>
> I'm the maintainer of QCad, a popular CAD program on Debian. QCad is a GPL
> program released by a commercial company, which has not ported to qt4. After
> squeeze, Debian will drop the qt3 libraries, so QCad will be removed. The
> librecad project is a qt4 port of QCad using qt3compat libraries. My plan is to
> maintain it under debian-sceince (as is qcad). One note: the project is
> changeing names from caduntu to librecad, so the package will be named
> librecad.

Why the "lib"?

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