qbzr in the PPA, karmic issues

[Max Bowsher]

On 13/01/11 19:42, Gary van der Merwe wrote:
> On 02/12/2010 22:07, Max Bowsher wrote:
>> On 02/12/10 10:01, Gary van der Merwe wrote:
>>> On 01/12/2010 23:08, Max Bowsher wrote:
>>>> The debian qbzr packaging has been updated to run the qbzr testsuite
>>>> during build. This has uncovered an issue when building qbzr 0.19.3 in
>>>> the bzr PPA for karmic.
>>>
>>>>   File "/build/buildd/qbzr-0.19.3/lib/tests/modeltest.py", line 69, in
>>>> nonDestructiveBasicTest
>>>>     assert(self.model.columnCount(QtCore.QModelIndex()) >= 0)
>>>> TypeError: QAbstractItemModel.columnCount() is abstract and cannot be
>>>> called as an unbound method
>>>
>>>> Can someone with QT skills analyze whether this means that qbzr now
>>>> requires the version of QT from at least lucid, or not?
>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> Max.
>>>
>>> Hi Max.
>>>
>>> I would say this is an error in the testsuite, not in the app. I do need
>>> to take a look at this. Please log a bug for it in qbzr.
> 
>> Filed as https://bugs.launchpad.net/qbzr/+bug/684402
> 
>> As we are only discovering this now because it just happens that we
>> turned the testsuite on, I will go ahead and reupload qbzr 0.19.3 to the
>> proposed PPA with the testsuite turned back off.
> 
>> Max.
> 
> 
> I remember this now. It is caused buy a bug in pyqt 4.6.0. I made a ppa
> with pyqt 4.6.1 to workaround the issue[1]. I assumed that the
> maintainers would update it in ubuntu, but that has not happened.
> 
> [1] https://launchpad.net/~garyvdm/+archive/python-qt4-ppa/

Karmic EOLs in 3½ months. I'm inclined to just ignore the issue unless
we find a user who cares.

Max.

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