[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#891994: epigrass: Depends on Qt4-only python-qwt5-qt4

[Andreas Tille]

On Tue, Sep 11, 2018 at 06:58:03AM +0200, Gudjon I. Gudjonsson wrote:
> Hi Andreas
> > 
> > I would love if people would test this.  Since it is not a Build-Depends
> > where I could see whether the build breaks or not and there is no test
> > suite to verify whether things work as expected I'm hesitating to just
> > change the dependencies.
> > 
> > > Since Python2 is also becoming obsolete in Debian, PyQt-Qwt is
> > > only compiled for Python3 in Debian
> > 
> > I'm aware of this and I contacted upstream about this long ago ...
> >
> I did try to run the program but I get
> 
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/usr/bin/epigrass", line 6, in <module>
>     from pkg_resources import load_entry_point
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 3105, in <module>
>     @_call_aside
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 3089, in _call_aside
>     f(*args, **kwargs)
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 3118, in _initialize_master_working_set
>     working_set = WorkingSet._build_master()
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 578, in _build_master
>     ws.require(__requires__)
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 895, in require
>     needed = self.resolve(parse_requirements(requirements))
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 781, in resolve
>     raise DistributionNotFound(req, requirers)
> pkg_resources.DistributionNotFound: The 'dbfread' distribution was not found and is required by epigrass
> 
> If you can tell me how to get it running, I can take a look at the migration to pyqt-qwt.

Thanks a lot for having a look - but I can not tell more as that there
should be a graphical interface.  I've added upstream in CC - may be
they can give some hints.

Kind regards

        Andreas.

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