On 7/26/2022 10:08 AM, Landry Breuil wrote:
> Le Tue, Jul 26, 2022 at 01:57:00PM +0000, Brian Callahan a écrit :
>> On 7/26/2022 9:43 AM, Landry Breuil wrote:
>>> Le Sun, Jul 24, 2022 at 12:20:03PM +0200, Caspar Schutijser a écrit :
>>>> I build-tested this and also did some runtime testing of Calibre and
>>>> that seems to work fine. So in that sense it's OK. But the veusz
>>>> problem is still there, right? I looked around in some other ports
>>>> collections but I've not been able to find a patch we can borrow. So
>>>> I guess someone actually has to look at the problem. Don't have time
>>>> for that myself right now.
>>>
>>> there's an example on
>>> https://github.com/veusz/veusz/issues/595#issuecomment-1193392261 but it
>>> looks... only for sip wizards.
>>>
>>> bcallah, what's your opinion as math/veusz maintainer ?
>>>
>>> Landry
>>>
>>
>> I won't be able to look at this until the weekend. I will have to become
>> a sip wizard I suppose.
>>
>> If the py-qt5 update needs to go in and veusz is the only blocker, I
>> suppose we can mark veusz BROKEN until then. I know it's not ideal, but
>> I don't see a better option in that case.
> 
> I wouldnt say it 'needs to go in' but usually they're a large pain as
> several ports (sip,qscintilla,pyqt...) have to be updated altogether and
> all the consumers need to bec checked, rafael did the hard work and
> usually if those diffs accumulate they tend to get stale/conflicts and
> the person doing the work loses motivation :)
> 
> Landry

That sounds close enough to "needs to go in" for me :)
Let's get py-qt5 in, mark veusz as BROKEN and I'll do my best to make
the length of time veusz is broken as short as possible.

~Brian

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