Re: cad/kicad separate package for older versions

Hi,

at least for the *-devel ports I do maintain, its not feasible to 
maintain several versions of a port just in case a newer version has bugs.

If a newer version is released its up to the upstream vendor to provide 
the proper release management.

The exception is sometimes if mayor incompatibilities affect depent 
ports like qt5/qt6, ffmpeg, ...


Furthermore the *-devel ports are by definition bleeding edge...


greetings

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Michael


On 4/24/26 05:51, Tomek CEDRO wrote:
> Hello world :-)
>
> The KiCAD port has been updated to version 10.0.1 big thank you!
>
> Except there is a blocker bug in pcbnew that make it impossible to set
> track width as it crashes:
>
> https://gitlab.com/kicad/code/kicad/-/work_items/23708
>
> Many people reported this issue, including one from FreeeBSD, but the
> issue is closed without resolution o_O
>
> My question is would it be possible to create a separate package for
> older release of KiCAD in case of such situations so it would be
> possible to fallback to older release in case of current release is
> broken (which happens quite often)? I am aware and don't want to even
> mention that older version may not open newer design files lol.
>
> I have verified with cad/kicad-devel and the issue is still there..
> and I was supposed to start pcb cncing in a few hours o_O
>
> The only quick fix for this is to have older version in a separate package?
>
> Thanks :-)
> Tomek
>
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