Re: [Plplot-devel] The Debian PLplot fails

[Alan W. I. <Ala...@gm...>]

On 2021-10-29 13:42+0200 Rafael Laboissière wrote:

> Dear PLplot developers,
>
> The Debian plplot package is failing to build against version 6.3.1 of 
> sip-tools. The latest correct build of the package was done against sit-tools 
> 6.1.1.¹
>
> This issue has been reported in Bug#997739.²
>
> This bug is tagged "serious". I could not find a way to fix it. If it is not 
> fixed, then the plplot package will be removed from Debian testing and, 
> consequently, from the next Debian release.

Hi Rafael:

Thanks for reporting this build issue against a new version of sip tools.

My impression is our pyqt bindings have *always* been precarious
because of the rather large sip churn, and this issue seems to be
another example of that.  I assume that our Qt developer, António
Tomé, will eventually be able to find a way to build our pyqt5
bindings against sip 6.3.1, but that will likely take a while since
sip is not very good (in my experience) at documenting what their
churn is and how to adjust to it.

Meanwhile, there is absolutely no need for packagers like yourself to
give up on PLplot because one minor component of it does not build
against new versions of libraries/tools.  Instead, simply use (in this case)
-DENABLE_pyqt5=OFF, and it should build and run without issues.

Cheers,

Alan
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