Bug#826042: Spyder crashes on start

[Martin Manns]

Package: spyder
Version: 2.3.8+dfsg1-1
Severity: grave

Dear Maintainer,

After updating Debian testing, Spyder crashes on start.
I would expect Spyder to start normally as before the update.

It seems that the dependency PyQt4.QTWebKit has been removed from
unstable, which beaks Spyder. I get the following messages:

$ spyder 
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/spyderlib/spyder.py", line
2331, in main mainwindow = run_spyder(app, options, args)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/spyderlib/spyder.py", line
2215, in run_spyder main.setup()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/spyderlib/spyder.py", line
734, in setup message=_("Spyder Internal Console\n\n"
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/spyderlib/plugins/console.py",
line 74, in __init__ self.find_widget.set_editor(self.shell)
  File
"/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/spyderlib/widgets/findreplace.py",
line 260, in set_editor from spyderlib.qt.QtWebKit import QWebView File
"/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/spyderlib/qt/QtWebKit.py", line 10,
in <module> from PyQt4.QtWebKit import *  # analysis:ignore
ImportError: No module named QtWebKit


-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 4.5.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages spyder depends on:
ii  python-spyderlib  2.3.8+dfsg1-1
pn  python:any        <none>

spyder recommends no packages.

spyder suggests no packages.

Versions of packages python-spyderlib depends on:
ii  libjs-jquery   1.12.3-1
ii  libjs-mathjax  2.6.1-1
ii  python-qt4     4.11.4+dfsg-2
ii  python-rope    0.10.2-1
ii  python-sphinx  1.3.6-2
pn  python:any     <none>
ii  spyder-common  2.3.8+dfsg1-1

Versions of packages python-spyderlib recommends:
ii  ipython-qtconsole     2.4.1-1
ii  pep8                  1.7.0-2
ii  pyflakes              1.2.3-1
ii  pylint                1.5.5-1
ii  python-bs4            4.4.1-1
ii  python-jedi           0.9.0-1
ii  python-matplotlib     1.5.2~rc2-1
ii  python-numpy          1:1.11.1~rc1-1
ii  python-pandas         0.18.0+git114-g6c692ae-1
ii  python-psutil         4.1.0-1
ii  python-scipy          0.17.1-1
ii  python-spyderlib-doc  2.3.8+dfsg1-1

Versions of packages python-spyderlib suggests:
pn  gitk        <none>
pn  tortoisehg  <none>

Versions of packages python-qt4 depends on:
ii  libc6                      2.22-10
ii  libgcc1                    1:6.1.1-4
ii  libpython2.7               2.7.11-9
ii  libqt4-dbus                4:4.8.7+dfsg-8
ii  libqt4-declarative         4:4.8.7+dfsg-8
ii  libqt4-designer            4:4.8.7+dfsg-8
ii  libqt4-help                4:4.8.7+dfsg-8
ii  libqt4-network             4:4.8.7+dfsg-8
ii  libqt4-script              4:4.8.7+dfsg-8
ii  libqt4-scripttools         4:4.8.7+dfsg-8
ii  libqt4-svg                 4:4.8.7+dfsg-8
ii  libqt4-test                4:4.8.7+dfsg-8
ii  libqt4-xml                 4:4.8.7+dfsg-8
ii  libqt4-xmlpatterns         4:4.8.7+dfsg-8
ii  libqtassistantclient4      4.6.3-7
ii  libqtcore4                 4:4.8.7+dfsg-8
ii  libqtgui4                  4:4.8.7+dfsg-8
ii  libstdc++6                 6.1.1-4
ii  python                     2.7.11-1
ii  python-sip [sip-api-11.3]  4.18+dfsg-1
pn  python:any                 <none>

Versions of packages python-qt4 suggests:
pn  python-qt4-dbg  <none>

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