Re: [Plplot-devel] The Debian PLplot fails

[António R. T. <ar...@gm...>]

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 <Ala...@gm...>
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
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> Alan W. Irwin
>
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>
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António Rodrigues Tomé
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Instituto D. Luís (lab associado)
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