On 2020-06-04, bob prohaska wrote:
>Ahh, that makes sense. I already had librecad installed. so not much
>to be done. But, I don't see the point....librecad and qcad are in
>principle different animals, it seems like "bait and switch" to swap
>one for the other.

More probably, some other package depended on qcad, and in order not
to break installations of _that_, there's a transitional dummy package
until that other package is updated.

>By way of explanation, I wanted qcad because I'd like to import a pdf
>into inkscape. When I tried, inkscape suggested running it through
>qcad first. As it happens, nothing seems to work. There's something
>fishy about the pdf, apparently.

Certainly my experience is that if a vaguely modern inkscape can't
read a PDF then the PDF is broken in some way.

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