Hi Alan I do not know if I will be able to solve in short/medium time whatever the problem is as I usually do not use python or pyqt. So I will try to learn what this is all about.
cheers On Sat, Oct 30, 2021 at 7:18 PM Alan W. Irwin <alan.w.irwin1...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 2021-10-30 07:26+0200 Rafael Laboissière wrote: > > > Yes, [-DENABLE_pyqt5=OFF] is the simplest way to get the package > building without issues. > > However, from the point of view of the Debian distribution, this means > that > > python3-plplot-qt should be dropped from the list of binary packages > built > > from the plplot source package. This change that we have to tweak the > > package and, then, once uploaded, it will have to go through the NEW > queue > > [*], in order to get the approval of the ftp-masters. Finally, when the > > PyQt/SIP issues will be fixed in the future, then we will have to tweak > back > > the changes, reintroduce python3-plplot-qt and the package will have to > got > > through the NEW queue again. > > > > I would rather prefer to wait until the issue is fixed upstream. There > is no > > rush for that, because the next release of Debian stable will not happen > any > > soon (the latest release was done this year and the Debian release life > cycle > > is two years). > > To Rafael and António: > > @Rafael: > It sounds like your "wait and see" strategy (instead of changing the > package and putting it through the NEW queue potentially twice) is the > right way to go. > > @both: > > I am not happy with how riverbankcomputing keeps breaking things for > sip users with no explicit documentation of the breakage (as far as > I could tell with my google searches, see yesterday's post). > > @António: > If you prefer not to fix this season's breakage with the prospect of > having to do it again every few years, then I would strongly lean > toward removing our pyqt binding and example completely just to make > our upstream life (and downstream packaging life) easier. > > Cheers, > > Alan > __________________________ > Alan W. Irwin > > Research affiliation with the Department of Physics and Astronomy, > University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada. > > Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS equation-of-state > implementation for stellar interiors (freeeos.sf.net); the Time > Ephemerides project (timeephem.sf.net); PLplot scientific plotting > software package (plplot.org); the libLASi project > (unifont.org/lasi); the Loads of Linux Links project (loll.sf.net); > and the Linux Brochure Project (lbproject.sf.net). > __________________________ > > Linux-powered Science > __________________________ > -- António Rodrigues Tomé Universidade da Beira Interior Instituto D. Luís (lab associado) email address: art...@gmail.com art...@ubi.pt http://www.researcherid.com/rid/A-5681-2013
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