[Debian-astro-maintainers] Bug#1083421: Bug#1093476: glueviz: python3-qtconsole dropping dependency on PyQt5; Depends needs updating

[Julian Gilbey]

severity 1083421 serious
retitle 1083421 glueviz: glue command does not work
thanks

Hi Alexandre,

On Mon, Feb 03, 2025 at 10:41:31AM +0100, Alexandre Detiste wrote:
> Hi
> 
> > For #1083421, can someone who knows the package tell me what
> > debian/glue should actually point to?  I was very unclear from a quick
> > glance at the source code.
> 
> The quick and _dirty_ option would be to manually merge the changes
> from a newer EASY-INSTALL-ENTRY-SCRIPT ... :-|
> There are so many installed on every system to look at.

Unfortunately, that won't work :-(

The only solution is to delete /usr/bin/glue entirely, as 1.17 no
longer provides a gui front end.  Instead, there are two new packages:
glue-qt and glue-jupyter that provide front ends; see
https://pypi.org/project/glue-core/ So one or both of these will need
to be packaged.  (And my guess is that glue-qt will be *much* easier
to package than glue-jupyter.)

As a result of this internal change to glue_core, the glueviz binary
package needs to be replaced by (presumably) the glue-qt package.
Something like:

source: glueviz (= glue-core PyPI package)
 -> binary: python3-glue

source: glue-qt
 -> binary: glueviz

I don't have the capacity to do this work, I'm afraid.

Best wishes,

   Julian