Hi Fernando, Am Mon, Aug 17, 2026 at 12:20:43PM +0200 schrieb Fernando Hueso González: > Thanks a lot Andreas for the revamp and guidance.
Sorry for my late reply - I'm basically offline + badly connected this week. > I also checked the copyright file, and it seems fully up-to-date. Good! > I just updated the changelog using the gbp dch command you suggested > earlier. I migt check tomorrow. > Question about your recent commits: > https://salsa.debian.org/python-team/packages/pythonqt/-/commit/c2253faca8310c9ede060b46eb61e0ecfb7ff7ac > Why is the syntax sometimes "-- Name " and sometimes "[Name]" ? ""-- Name " is part of the d/changelog syntax and marks the changelog owner (= the person who signs responsible for this package version). "[Name]" is just free text and helps the reader to know who worked on this package version. If only the changelog owner worked on the package you leave it out. > https://salsa.debian.org/python-team/packages/pythonqt/-/commit/e715afffd5a9a18be607a7fa69bb32a2cb09865d > Why is the repository pointing to sourceforge rather than GitHub ? (first > and last lines), inbetween is ok Not checked due to limited bandwidth. Please assume I might make mistakes. If Github is the recent one just use this and fix my mistake. > > Please inspect the patches in debian/patches. I deactivated these all > > by renaming series to _series. Please inspect every single one whether > > it can be removed or should be adapted. I did not looked at these files > > at all! > I just checked, and none of these are need anymore! They were either merged > to upstream or are no longer needed with Qt6 and Python3. > > The package now needs adaption from Qt5 to Qt6 (does not build as is). > > I did the proper changes: the CI now builds the package correctly with CMake > and Qt6. I'll check later. > However, it fails at the install step, saying it cannot find libPythonQt.so. > > In a local build on Ubuntu 26, the install step via make install spits out > the following: > > Install the project... > -- Install configuration: "Release" > -- Installing: /usr/local/lib/libPythonQt.so > -- Installing: /usr/local/include/PythonQt/PythonQtBoolResult.h > -- Installing: /usr/local/include/PythonQt/PythonQtClassInfo.h > -- Installing: /usr/local/include/PythonQt/PythonQtUtils.h > -- Installing: /usr/local/include/PythonQt/PythonQtVariants.h > -- Installing: /usr/local/include/PythonQt/PythonQtPythonInclude.h > -- Installing: /usr/local/include/PythonQt/PythonQtConfigure.h > -- Installing: /usr/local/lib/libPythonQt_QtAll.so > -- Set non-toolchain portion of runtime path of > "/usr/local/lib/libPythonQt_QtAll.so" to "" > -- Installing: /usr/local/include/PythonQt/PythonQt_QtAll.h > > In the repo, the libpythonqt-dev contains: > > lib/libPythonQt*.so usr/lib/ > > Do you think that the problem is that the default install path is /usr/local > rather than lib? Or maybe the CI is not calling "make install" correctly > since I don't see it in the build logs of the pipeline? Sounds like a sensible explanation for the issue - can't check right now. > Looking at CTK, I see though a different structure in debian/rules, that has > a custom: > > # Runtime Package > dh_install -p$(pkg_run) usr/lib/*.so.* > # Development Package > dh_install -p$(pkg_dev) usr/include > dh_install -p$(pkg_dev) usr/lib/lib*.so > > that is not present in PythonQt, but I am not sure if this was something > specific to CTK because of the libctk0.1 suffixes. > > > Another question, when running lintian, I got: > > /Cannot find a changes file for pythonqt/4.1.0-1. It would be named like: > pythonqt_4.1.0-1_amd64.changes > pythonqt_4.1.0-1_multi.changes > pythonqt_4.1.0-1_all.changes > pythonqt_4.1.0-1_source.changes/ > > Here, I do not understand if any action is required. > > Side note: I cannot seem to run lintian-brush or routine-update on my > Ubuntu26, couldn't figure out what package does that. Both are commands are in the packages with the same name in Debian unstable. > Best regards, Fernando. Sorry for the short reply - will be more verbosely later. Kind regards Andreas. -- https://fam-tille.de
