[Bug 57519] Re: Please backport PyQt4 related packages

[Joshua Kugler]

Well, here is what I've tried so far.  I've probably made grave Debian
package no-no's, but ah well, if ya don't build as root, ya don't mess
anything up.

[Unless otherwise stated, all dependencies of referenced packages were
installed as well]

debhelper 5.0.7ubuntu13 was already installed (from Dapper)
python (2.4) was already installed
Installed python-all-dev from Dapper
libqt4-dev was already installed (from Dapper)
Installed sip4 and python-sip4-dev from Dapper
Installed python-central from Edgy repositories
Installed dpatch from Dapper

Modified python-qt4_4.0.1-1.dsc
	Changed debhelper version to >= 5.0.7
	Changed sip4 version to >=4.3.2
	Changed python-sip4-dev version to >= 4.3.2

Well, that part didn't do any good, because the control file still
called for the other versions.  Let's try the -d flag.

That got past the version errors, but now I have other build errors,
mainly about not finding pyversions (although /usr/share/pycentral-
data/pyversions.py does exist).  See attachment for build errors.

Putting pyversions.py in my path and doing a symbolic link to it from
pyversion got me this:

dpkg-buildpackage: source package is python-qt4
dpkg-buildpackage: source version is 4.0.1-1
dpkg-buildpackage: source changed by Torsten Marek <shlomme at debian.org>
dpkg-buildpackage: host architecture i386
 fakeroot debian/rules clean
dpatch  deapply-all
rm -rf patch-stamp patch-stampT debian/patched

But then it hung there, and the X cursor turned into a cross, like you
would see when doing a screen shot.  No, really, it did, and it's a
repeatable case.

dpkg -L python-central tells me there is no /usr/bin/pyversions
installed, so I'm not sure what the build script is looking for.
Probably has to do with an out of date debhelper or sip4.  Wonder if I
could build those from source...

/.
/usr
/usr/bin
/usr/bin/py_compilefiles
/usr/bin/pycentral
/usr/bin/dh_pycentral
/usr/share
/usr/share/pycentral-data
/usr/share/pycentral-data/pyversions.py
/usr/share/debhelper
/usr/share/debhelper/autoscripts
/usr/share/debhelper/autoscripts/postinst-pycentral
/usr/share/debhelper/autoscripts/prerm-pycentral
/usr/share/python
/usr/share/python/runtime.d
/usr/share/python/runtime.d/pycentral.rtinstall
/usr/share/python/runtime.d/pycentral.rtremove
/usr/share/python/runtime.d/pycentral.rtupdate
/usr/share/doc
/usr/share/doc/python-central
/usr/share/doc/python-central/copyright
/usr/share/doc/python-central/changelog.gz
/usr/share/man
/usr/share/man/man1
/usr/share/man/man1/pycentral.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/dh_pycentral.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/py_compilefiles.1.gz

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Please backport PyQt4 related packages
https://launchpad.net/bugs/57519