Bug#946451: spyder: work on new upstream release

[Jitse Niesen]

Dear Julian and others,

Thank you all for your efforts on packaging Spyder for Debian. As an 
upstream developer and a Debian user, I have an interest in it and 
hopefully I'll be able to help a bit.

On 03/01/2021 13:38, Julian Gilbey wrote:
 > Most of the errors were to do with font prefixes, which I don't
 > understand, so any help there would be appreciated!

Unfortunately, I am not familiar with that part of the code base, but I 
do know that font prefixes are handled in qtawesome (package 
python-qtawesome in Debian). I see the current version in Debian is 
0.4.4. I believe that the specific error you mention (Invalid icon name 
"window-close-o" in font "fa") refers to an icon in qtawesome 0.5.0, so 
I'd suggest upgrading qtawesome. For reference, the requirements for 
Spyder include qtawesome 0.5.7 or greater 
(https://github.com/spyder-ide/spyder/blob/master/requirements/conda.txt#L34), 
for what it's worth.

Apologies if this was already obvious to you.

All the best,
Jitse