Bug#891993: syrthes-gui uses obsolete libs Qt4 and Python2

[Gilles Filippini]

Hi,

Moritz Mühlenhoff a écrit le 13/09/2019 à 23:18 :
> On Mon, Aug 19, 2019 at 02:12:35AM -0400, Scott Kitterman wrote:
>> On Sat, 03 Mar 2018 21:16:22 +0100 Andreas Beckmann <anbe at debian.org> wrote:
>>> Source: syrthes
>>> Version: 4.3.0-dfsg1-2
>>> Severity: serious
>>> Tags: sid buster
>>> Justification: blocks python-qwt5-qt4 removal
>>> Control: block 886779 with -1
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> src:syrthes Build-Depends on python-qwt5-qt4 which is scheduled for
>>> removal (#886779). Please switch to a Qt5 solution or drop the
>>> (Build-)Dependency altogether.
>>>
>>>
>>> Andreas
>>
>> These (along with python-qwt5-qt4) are being removed this cycyle.  Upstream 
>> does not have a Qt5/Python3 release yet.  If the Python3/Qt4 requirements are 
>> confined to the gui, maybe just that part can be dropped until upstream 
>> releases a version we can support.
> 
> Hi Gilles,
> syrthes is the only remaining packages blocking the removal of pyqwt5. Are
> you planning to port the GUI yourself, should we (temporarily, until fixed)
> drop the syrthes-gui package or if that's not an option, should syrthes be
> (temporarily) removed altogether?

Syrthes' upstream is quite unresponsive. A version 5 should be on its
way but there is no place to download it from and the preview I had more
than one year ago brought many dependencies with unclear licensing.

I think the best option for now would be to just drop syrthes-gui.

Thanks,

_g.

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