#1137327 kicad: Upgrade to KiCAD v10 in oldstable-backports

Package:
kicad
Source:
kicad
Description:
Electronic schematic and PCB design software
Submitter:
Kevin Joly
Date:
2026-08-21 13:39:02 UTC
Severity:
normal
#1137327#5
Date:
2026-05-22 13:12:28 UTC
From:
To:
Dear Maintainer,

KiCAD v10 is breaking compatibility with KiCAD v9 libraries.

As a KiCAD contributor I'd like to push new electronic part symbols and
footprints but the available version in oldstable-backport is 9.0.8.

Thanks a lot for all the amazing work!

Best regards,
Kevin JOLY
#1137327#10
Date:
2026-07-09 10:34:19 UTC
From:
To:
Dear Maintainer,

bookworm-backports(-sloppy) is going to be closed in two days [1] so
that's no longer an option. However it would be great if you could
provide a backport of 10.0.x to the current Debian stable version
Trixie. From a quick glance at the Build-Depends, it shouldn't be much
effort (assuming there are no missing minimum version requirements).


Thanks a lot for maintaining KiCad in Debian, including providing
backports to Bullseye and Bookworm!

(I'm subscribed to the ticket; no need to CC me)

Sascha

[1] mid:5CAB29D6-0409-4AC9-B1C8-28570E7EBABB@debian.org
https://lists.debian.org/debian-backports/2026/06/msg00020.html
#1137327#15
Date:
2026-08-21 13:20:55 UTC
From:
To:
I've tried doing an unmodified backport from the 10.0.5+dfsg-1
version; it just works so far. I did not try rebuilding the
out-of-source-package dependencies (kicad-footprint, kicad-symbols,
kicad-templates), but just pulled them from unstable.

The only trouble I ran into was that due to having a bit of a
frankendebian, I had python3.14 installed from unstable, which worked
for the build and for starting up, but then crashed when opening the
schematic or PCB editor with [1]/[2]), but that should only be a concern
if Python 3.14 gets backported *too*.

[1]: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2393850
[2]: https://github.com/python/cpython/issues/139653