Bug#1070215: Discussion on Bug#1070215: python3-qtpy: Add metapackages for other APIs

2024-12-04 Thread Julian Gilbey
Dear Python team, I'm having some difficulty figuring out how best to address this bug, and am looking for input on this. Short story (feel free to read more details in the bug report, https://bugs.debian.org/1070215): * python3-qtpy is meant to be a metapackage that provides a uniform interfa

Bug#1070215: python3-qtpy: Add metapackages for other APIs

2024-11-25 Thread Julian Gilbey
Hi Stuart, On Tue, Nov 26, 2024 at 12:07:56AM +1100, Stuart Prescott wrote: > > Hi Julian > > The transition is indeed potentially messy. > > With modularised Qt packaging, I think the desired end state will be > applications packages having dependencies only on a qtpy package that has > the Py

Bug#1070215: python3-qtpy: Add metapackages for other APIs

2024-11-25 Thread Stuart Prescott
Hi Julian The transition is indeed potentially messy. With modularised Qt packaging, I think the desired end state will be applications packages having dependencies only on a qtpy package that has the Python modules and no Qt dependencies. Individual packages should then select the correct

Bug#1070215: python3-qtpy: Add metapackages for other APIs

2024-11-24 Thread Julian Gilbey
Hi Stuart, Thanks for your changes to python-qtpy on salsa - looks great! What about the transition, though? There are quite a few packages in unstable/testing that currently depend on python3-qtpy and will need to transition to one of the other packages or manually specify the Qt/PySide librari