Re: [Plplot-devel] The Debian PLplot fails

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

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
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