[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#1001657: Ball fails its autopkgtest - how to properly deal with sip files?

[Andreas Tille]

Hi Étienne,

Am Tue, Dec 14, 2021 at 11:13:21PM +0100 schrieb Étienne Mollier:
> Étienne Mollier, on 2021-12-14:
> > However, once the sip file is caught, the package fails to build
> > from source due to various errors in the generated code.  The
> > patch also addresses one of them in its second hunk.  I think I
> > was stuck on some "overrides" related errors, but they were
> > interleaved within sip output, I can send a proper log later
> > this week after an overnight build if needed.
> 
> I forgot I had one other patch to address PyString issues, part
> of the ftbfs.  And also forgot to mention that I had to enforce
> -DSIP_LIBRARIES=/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages from the cmake
> call in d/rules.
> 
> In hope this helps,

May be you can simply push your patches to make sure everything is
stored visibly.

What I'm currently wondering is the following:  According to popcon[1]
python3-ball has 2 votes and its only dependency ballview has 10 votes.
This makes no real sense if ballview would really need python3-ball.
I'm wondering how we can find out whether ballview really depends the
Python3 package or whether we can simply drop it.

Upstream does not seem to be active any more but may be Steffen (in
CC) can clarify this.

Kind regards

    Andreas.

[1] https://qa.debian.org/popcon.php?package=ball

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