Unneeded Py QT3 Divergence From Debian

Scott Kitterman ubuntu at kitterman.com
Sun Mar 2 21:36:27 GMT 2008


On Sunday 02 March 2008 16:34, Scott Kitterman wrote:
> We are down to only one difference between Kubuntu and Debian in Py QT3. 
> We ship pyqtconfig in the regular package instead of the -dev package. 
> Looking at what pyqtconfig does and after discussing it with the Debian
> maintainer, I think Debian is correct.
>
> The problem we have is that mountconfig imports kdedesigner which uses
> pyqtconfig.  As nearly as I can determine, mountconfig never actually uses
> anything from there and the import can be removed.  If we do that, we
> should be able to sync Py QT3 on the next upload.
>
> This would also prevent problems where packages that build dep on the -dev
> package and use pyqtconfig when building would FTBFS (I had to merge Eric
> due to this issue).  So we'd be better off all around.
>
> Since my Hardy computer only has one hard drive with a single partition, I
> thought it would be helpful to get more testing on this, so I uploaded a
> fixed version of kde-guidance to my PPA:
>
> https://launchpad.net/~kitterman/+archive/
>
> Once it's built (I just uploaded it), please give it a test and let me know
> if you have any problems.  If no one complains/objects, I'll look into
> fixing kde-guidance and Py QT3 after Alpha 6 gets done.

The wait may be a while.  It looks like LP ate my upload for some reason.

Urgh.

Scott K



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