[arch-general] [pacman-dev] pyqt packages confusion

[Andrea Scarpino]

On Saturday 07 May 2011 15:35:24 kachelaqa wrote:
> firstly:
> 
> why does python2-pyqt now depend on pyqt (for python3)? why should it be
> necessary to drag in python3 and pyqt(3) for a python2 package?
In the previous packages the python3 version had the python2 version as its 
dependence; I changed this because we are going to remove python2 a day.

> secondly:
> 
> looking at the file lists, it appears that several critical files are
> now missing from python2-pyqt, namely:
> 
>      /usr/bin/pyuic4
>      /usr/bin/pylupdate4
>      /usr/bin/pyrcc4
>      /usr/lib/qt/plugins/designer/libpythonplugin.so
>      (and possibly a few others)
> presumably, the intention is that those files will be provided by the
> pyqt(3) package instead. which makes no sense to me, because they are
> not guaranteed to be compatible.
>
> IMHO these two packages *must* be kept separate - it should be possible
> to install each package completely independently, without any danger of
> either one clobbering the files of the other.
I, with the help of an user from the community, did a search and asked PyQt 
developers about this, and they say we can use those files for both versions of 
PyQt built with different python version.

> (nb: it might also be worth noting here that the new python2-pyqt
> package also breaks the python2-qscintilla package. bug report:
> https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/24144)
Fixed. Thanks.

-- 
Andrea