Bug#964132: qgis: Please switch from sip4 to sip5

[Sebastiaan Couwenberg]

On 9/21/20 5:16 PM, Sebastiaan Couwenberg wrote:
> On 9/21/20 5:10 PM, Dmitry Shachnev wrote:
>> On Mon, Sep 21, 2020 at 04:44:06PM +0200, Sebastiaan Couwenberg wrote:
>>>> But SIP 6 won't be released before Qt 6, which is expected in the beginning
>>>> of 2021.
>>>
>>> Are there any packagers for Qt 6 yet? If not, we'll have qt5 in Debian
>>> for quite awhile still.
>>
>> SIP doesn't depend on Qt, just the upstream SIP/PyQt6 developer wants
>> to coordinate his release schedule with Qt.
>>
>>> Your patches to the upstream buildsystem have been been added to the
>>> master branch on salsa as well. They will be included in the next upload
>>> which likely won't happen before 3.10.10+dfsg-1 migrates to testing, at
>>> the latest when 3.10.11 is released next month.
>>>
>>> Once PyQt5 is moved to unstable, the changes for (build) dependencies
>>> will be adopted on the master branch as well.
>>
>> Can I ask you to test the current QGIS package from unstable with PyQt5
>> 5.15.1 from experimental?
>>
>> I could do it myself, but you know this package more so can probably perform
>> more extensive testing.
> 
> We've already tested that it builds as proven by the package in
> experimental.
> 
> I don't use QGIS much, so there is not much runtime testing I can do.

A quick test in an unstable VMs doesn't turn up any issues, adding an
OSM standard layer and a BAG woonplaats WMS layer worked successfully.

Kind Regards,

Bas

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