Bug#984937: ITP: flatcam-beta -- PCB CAM software (beta release)
Hi,
10/03/2021 17:40, Carsten Schoenert :
> long long ago I intended to package FlatCAM.
>
> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=844643
>
> I stopped working on this due no response from upstream regarding
> questions related to Qt5 Python bindings so far I remember.
The only discussion I was able to find is this one:
https://bitbucket.org/jpcgt/flatcam/issues/221/intent-to-package-flatcam-for-debian
It seems that upstream is now correctly using pyqt5, at least in their
Beta branch.
> Why do you want to name the package flatcam-beta?
Because flatcam's master branch itself seems abandonned since 2019 and
misses a lot of useful features. As long as upstream is not making a
proper release and is keeping development in the Beta branch, I am only
interrested in using (and packaging) flatcam-beta and not flatcam itself.
See https://bitbucket.org/jpcgt/flatcam/branches/ for the difference
between the two versions: 2865 commits.
I do not intent to update everytime a new Beta release is made, but want
to be able to install Flatcam Beta easily without running into a lot of
dependencies issues that I am currently facing with upstream's Beta branch.
Any thoughs on this approach are welcome!
Romain.
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