Brilliant, thanks Andreas.
I did actually see that reportbug was available on ubuntu but I wasn't sure if that was a separate system for ubuntu-specific bugs that just used the same name. thanks again Jon — Jon Peirce Open Science Tools Ltd Creators of PsychoPy and Pavlovia.org Twitter | Facebook | Youtube (PsychoPy) --- original message --- On May 5, 2021, 3:05 PM GMT+1 [email protected] wrote: Hi Jon, On Wed, May 05, 2021 at 01:32:21PM +0000, Jon Peirce wrote: >> OK, thanks both. I'll use the [email protected] email from here on >> and I'll do my best to get reportbug running on a VM. > I never used Ubuntu but I have heard that there is a way to report bugs > right to Debian from a running Ubuntu machine. This link looks a bit > aged but it was top ranking in my web search: > https://help.ubuntu.com/community/reportbug >> Oh, and is there a page somewhere to check on the release schedules (like >> freeze dates)? Maybe I can leave myself a note to check in with you at more >> appropriate times > This page names freeze dates: > https://release.debian.org/bullseye/freeze_policy.html > The release date (after which we can start uploading new versions again) > is not yet fixed. Here is the latest information about the status > https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2021/05/msg00000.html >> thanks > Thanks to you for your cooperation > Andreas. >> — >> Jon Peirce >> >> >> Open Science Tools Ltd >> Creators of PsychoPy and Pavlovia.org >> Twitter | Facebook | Youtube (PsychoPy) >> >> --- original message --- >> On May 3, 2021, 9:17 PM GMT+1 [email protected] wrote: >> >> On 03/05/21 09:44 PM, Andreas Tille wrote: >> >> >> Hi Jon, >> >> >> >> >> >> On Mon, May 03, 2021 at 07:28:39PM +0000, Jon Peirce wrote: >> >> >> > Thanks for your help providing PsychoPy as a package via Debian Med. >> >> >> >> >> >> Thanks in return for your very helpful comments. >> >> >> >> >> >> For the next stable release (bullseye) we can't do anything anymore >> >> >> since we are in deep freeze. However, your very detailed hints are a >> >> >> very nice and structured todo list. We should make sure that we will >> >> >> not loose this out of focus and thus it would be very valuable if you >> >> >> would consider filing a bug report instead of a mail to some (not >> >> >> really) random team members. So if you would be so kind to simply >> >> >> (I know its not considered simple) fire up >> >> >> >> >> >> reportbug python3-psychopy >> >> >> >> >> >> and simply copy your mail into the editor interface of reportbug. >> >> >> >> >> >> This would ensure we will not simply forget to work on the package. >> >> >> > +1 >> >> >> >> > I've been doing a fair bit of packaging and installing work recently as >> >> > we move our test suite from Travis to GH Actions and I noticed the last >> >> > version wasn't quite sufficient to fully install on a clean ubuntu VM. >> >> > There was relatively little work to get it there (as listed below) but >> >> > I wonder if we can get that added to your packaging flow. >> >> >> > >> >> >> > >> >> >> > Some of the things were missing python packages that could be fetched >> >> > with pip. The trickiest is the wxPython package - it seems you had >> >> > provided a wxPython package as part of the installation but I think it >> >> > didn't have all the dylibs it needed. I was able to fix that on this >> >> > version of python/ubuntu by installing forcing a new install of a wheel >> >> > as below. Wheels aren't available for all *nix versions though so >> >> > building is the right thing to do. I think I have a setup on GitHub >> >> > that reliably builds it now so I can probably help there. >> >> >> > >> >> >> > >> >> >> > For info about our releases, we've recently pushed out our 4th bug-fix >> >> > release of the current series (2021.1.4) which is the current >> >> > recommended version, and we're now working towards our next major >> >> > feature release in June. >> >> >> > Thanks a lot for all your work there! >> >> >> >> > >> >> >> > By the way, is there a preferred way I should contact you guys >> >> >> > Yes, it'd be best if you could contact us at the mailing list: >> > [email protected] >> >> > We all read it and there are several people doing packaging actively >> >> > there who would be able to chime in as well. >> >> > You can subscribe to the list here if you'd like: >> > https://lists.debian.org/debian-med/ >> >> >> >> > (I see there's a mailing list called Debian-med-packaging?) >> >> >> > Not many people are subscribed to -packaging mailing list due to low >> >> > signal to noise ratio, at least I'm not. The list I mentioned above works >> > best. >> >> >> >> > Let me know if there's anything else I can do to help >> >> >> > It's really helpful that you are testing the package at your end. >> >> >> > Thanks a lot, >> >> > Nilesh >> --- end of original message --- > -- > http://fam-tille.de --- end of original message ---
