[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] DBus mainloop support in PyQt4

[Simon McVittie]

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> the latest release of PyQt4 has a support module for writing DBus applications
> with PyQt4. The module (qt.so) is supposed to be installed in the mainloop
> package of python-dbus. Somehow, I am feeling quite uneasy installing a file in
> some other package's folder, so I would like to ask you for your opinion first.
> Do you think that this could be a problem? Is there some other solution?

If that's what PyQT4's upstream does, I don't think it should be a
problem. Would you mind letting me look at a pre-release package before
uploading?

If you install the dbus/ and dbus/mainloop/ directories but no
__init__.py for them, then this will not cause any conflict with
dbus-python, and the extension will appear not to be present (import
won't find it at all) unless dbus-python is installed too. I think this
is what you want, perhaps with a Suggests on dbus-python (in addition to
the Build-Depends which you'll already need - I didn't bother giving it
a separate -dev package, since the development files are tiny).

(I'm the upstream maintainer of dbus-python.)
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Simon McVittie, Collabora Ltd.: http://www.collabora.co.uk/
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