Re: Packaging FreeCAD

[John Soo]

Hi Paul,

Thank you for saving me the headache!  I’ll keep this posted with progress. 

- John 

> On Jan 14, 2019, at 4:42 AM, Paul Garlick <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> Hi John,
> 
>> I did not know Debian changed their version of opencascade
> 
> There are two versions of OpenCASCADE in Debian, named 'liboce' and
> 'libocct'.  'occt' is the upstream variant, 'oce' is the community
> maintained variant.  Historically, Debian has switched between the two
> as licence requirements dictated.  
> 
> Currently, both are packaged and FreeCAD version 0.17 depends on
> liboce.  However, libocct is being more actively maintained and I
> believe the intention for Debian FreeCAD version 0.18 is for the
> dependency to switch to libocct.
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Paul.
>