Source: geophar Version: 14.07~dfsg1-1 Severity: serious Justification: blocks the almost complete wxpython3.0 transition Tags: sid jessie User: freewx-ma...@lists.alioth.debian.org Usertags: wxpy3.0 Control: block 755757 by -1
We've been working on migrating the archive to using wxpython3.0 instead of wxwidgets2.8 for a few months, and this process is close to complete, so jessie won't be releasing with wxwidgets2.8 - you can see the release team's tracker here: https://release.debian.org/transitions/html/wxpython3.0.html As I warned you a few weeks ago while geophar was still in NEW, you'll need to update it to use wxpython3.0 if you want it to be in jessie. I've included the template email from the bugs filed for the transition which contains information which is likely to be useful for updating to wxpython3.0. The wxPython 3.0 API mostly adds to the wxPython2.8 API. Many packages work with wxPython 3.0 without any changes, but there are a few incompatibilities. For example, wx.Color is no longer supported as an alias for wx.Colour, and some constants which were deprecated in 2.8 have been removed. All the removed constants I'm aware of were set to 0 in wxPython 2.8, so removing them is still compatible with 2.8. To assist updating to wxPython 3.0, I've put together a script which will help make the mechanical changes required. This is in a git repo on collab-maint along with a README about using it and updating packages for wxPython 3.0 in general: http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/collab-maint/wx-migration-tools.git The script has some options to control the sorts of changes it makes - see the README and --help output for more information - you can view the latest version of the README online here: http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/collab-maint/wx-migration-tools.git/tree/README I've developed this script by trying to convert 20+ packages. Please try it out on your package - in many cases, it should be enough to get your package working (if it doesn't already) - if it does, please upload (and close this bug). If the script doesn't do the job, please let me know (or improve the script if you can figure out what it needs to do to get your package working). Another issue you may hit is that wxWidgets 3.0 now defaults to enabling its "WXDEBUG" checks for incorrect API usage, so some applications will emit scary sounding "assertion failures". These are unlikely to actually be new, just in a default build of 2.8, such incorrect uses were handled quietly behind the scenes. Sometimes these are easy to fix, but if not you can easily patch the application to tell wx 3.0 to handle them in the same way wx 2.8 does - details of how to do so are in the README: http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/collab-maint/wx-migration-tools.git/tree/README Cheers, Olly -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
