Dmitry, you know better than me on this :-/ On martes, 23 de mayo de 2017 10:13:13 -03 Erik Lundin wrote: > Hello, > > I sent this email to the debian-mentors list, and got directed to the > Debian Qt/KDE team, so here follows the same content: > > We're using PythonQt built for Qt 5 at work, and I have been looking at > the possibility to package it for Debian. Here is what I have found so far: > > * Qt 4 support for PythonQt seems to have been abandoned upstream. There > is a branch with the last working version for Qt 4, and version 3.1 > (latest release) assumes Qt 5. > * Support for CMake has been removed upstream. > * The current Debian packages are Qt 4 only, and made for QMake. > * pythonqt is orphaned in Debian > * Debian tracker: https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/pythonqt > > I have made necessary changes for building the package using QMake, and > now would like to contribute them back to the community. However, I'm > new when it comes to Debian packaging, so please help me with the following: > > *Qt 4 vs Qt 5 versions of installed files* > Compatibility between the packages for Qt 4 and Qt 5 has to be handled, > i.e. the new package should not just install files with the same names > as the previous packages. Since Qt 4 is abandoned upstream, I changed > the packaging scripts to only build for Qt 5 and changed the names to > "libpythonqt-qt5-3.1" and "libpythonqt-qt5-dev". However, the installed > files still have the same names as the files of the previous packages > (at least the dev package, which has files installed in > /usr/include/PythonQt). Possible solutions to the dev package problem: > > * Install header files to /usr/include/PythonQt5 or some other Qt 5 > specific folder. > * Install header files to /usr/include/PythonQt and let > libpythonqt-qt5-dev conflict libpythonqt-dev so only one of them can be > installed at a time. > * Install header files to /usr/include/PythonQt and only use the name > libpythonqt-dev (no Qt 5 in the name). The policy manual, section 8.4, > suggests that this is a possibility if you only want to support one > development version at a time. > > *Library files* > The library files have different names, because of the new version > (libPythonQt.so.3.1.0 vs libPythonQt.so.3.0.0), but would it be wise to > rename the Qt 5 library to libPythonQt5.so.3.1.0 or something similarly, > just to clearly indicate the difference? Since Qt 4 is abandoned > upstream, I don't expect any Qt 4 packages with version 3.1.0 of the so > files. The policy manual, section 8.1, says that "the package should > install the shared libraries under their normal names". > > The previous package libpythonqt3.0 creates the symlink > libPythonQt.so.3.0 -> libPythonQt.so.3.0.0 but not libPythonQt.so.3 -> > libPythonQt.so.3.0.0. Should this file be skipped also in the Qt 5 case? > The symlink libPythonQt.so is created by the dev package, which is fine > if the second or third solution to the dev package problem above is > selected. > > *PythonQt_QtAll* > Previous packages built using CMake were configured to wrap the > extension PythonQt_QtAll and only create one set of library files. > However, the possibility to do that seems to have disappeared, and now a > new set of library files are created (libPythonQt_QtAll.so.3.1.0 with > corresponding symlinks). The packaging guide, section 8.1, suggests that > it is OK to put several libraries into the same package if their SONAMES > will always change together, and I assume that this is the case here, so > I'm prepared to do that. Any opinions on that? > > Regards, > Erik
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