On Saturday 07 May 2011 15:35:24 kachelaqa wrote: > firstly: > > why does python2-pyqt now depend on pyqt (for python3)? why should it be > necessary to drag in python3 and pyqt(3) for a python2 package? In the previous packages the python3 version had the python2 version as its dependence; I changed this because we are going to remove python2 a day. > secondly: > > looking at the file lists, it appears that several critical files are > now missing from python2-pyqt, namely: > > /usr/bin/pyuic4 > /usr/bin/pylupdate4 > /usr/bin/pyrcc4 > /usr/lib/qt/plugins/designer/libpythonplugin.so > (and possibly a few others) > presumably, the intention is that those files will be provided by the > pyqt(3) package instead. which makes no sense to me, because they are > not guaranteed to be compatible. > > IMHO these two packages *must* be kept separate - it should be possible > to install each package completely independently, without any danger of > either one clobbering the files of the other. I, with the help of an user from the community, did a search and asked PyQt developers about this, and they say we can use those files for both versions of PyQt built with different python version. > (nb: it might also be worth noting here that the new python2-pyqt > package also breaks the python2-qscintilla package. bug report: > https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/24144) Fixed. Thanks. -- Andrea
