python-pivy needs recompiling with current swig version

[Yorik van Havre]

Binary package hint: python-pivy

The python-pivy package (source package: pivy) currently in lucid repository was compiled with swig 1.3.36. This makes it incompatible with applications compiled with other versions of swig.

Freecad, the only package, to my knowledge, that uses pivy, is compiled with swig 1.3.40, which is the current version in lucid. A big part of freecad relies on pivy, and is unusable because pivy is not working (specifically, pivy cannot access the coin scenegraph of freecad).

Werner Mayer demonstrated on the freecad forum that a simple recompile of pivy against current swig solves the issue:
http://sourceforge.net/apps/phpbb/free-cad/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=378&sid=9e3d2a7780f1aed918f2416411135459&p=2477#p2478

I'm not sure this package has any ubuntu maintainer, if I can help in anything please tell me.

[Xwang (xwang1976)]

I can confirm the same issue.
Will it be fixed in the 10.04 lts?
Xwang

[Yorik van Havre (yorikvanhavre)]

That problem is fixed in recent FreeCAD sourcecode (fixed in r3179). FreeCAD
is now able to use any version of pivy. The version that will go in 10.10
(r3247) includes the fix, but I'm not sure what will happen with the 10.04
version, if it will get updated or not...

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[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Mattia Rizzolo (mapreri)]

For sure it was rebuilt for wily, closing.