Re: Packaging FreeCAD

[John Soo]

Thanks so much Paul! This is really helpful!

> On Feb 15, 2019, at 9:20 AM, Paul Garlick <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> Hi John,
> 
>> I have been getting a little stuck building the pyside2 dependencies
> 
> There has been an effort to package pyside2 for Debian.  This has been
> completed in the last six months. 
> 
> A good place to look for information is 
> https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/pyside2
> 
> You can browse the source code and follow the links to the 'debian'
> directory, which contains the files that govern the packaging process. 
> In general for Debian packages, the 'rules' file is worth reading and
> the 'patches' directory has the changes to the upstream code.  
> 
> One element that could be important in Guix is an update of patchelf to
> a recent commit (see 'update-patchelf.patch' in the patches directory).
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Paul.
>