[Python-modules-team] Bug#588558: python-pyside.qtgui bugs

[Kirill Smelkov]

Hi OdyX,

On Mon, Aug 09, 2010 at 04:11:24PM +0200, Didier 'OdyX' Raboud wrote:
> Hi Kirill, and thanks for your bugreports, 
> 
> #588556 and #588558 have the same short explanation: the 0.3.2 pyside release 
> has grave bugs in the QtGui.so modules, which make some of its build-tests fail: 
> at least qtgui_qwidget segfaults on all architectures.
> 
> I'm hereby rising the severity of this bug above RC level as it is IMHO critical 
> for Qt bindings to allow seamless use of the QtGui functionality.
> 
> The 0.4.0 PySide release has these bugs fixed and they are unfortunately hard to 
> track down exactly as their source layout changed a lot.

Thanks for the update.

Maybe a bit duplicate in spirit of #591981, but I'd like to share my
thoughts on the situation:

PySide is still very young and has small userbase -- that's why we have
only 2 bugreports for it in Debian, not because it's not buggy. The fact
that I took examples and got 2 kinds of segfalts only justifies it.

Now, if it is young, and have small user base, and upstream says they
devoted time for "massive effort to close bugs" for 0.4.0, I think the
best strategy would be to try to ship that 0.4.0 in Squeeze.

Maybe it's a bit against rules (not sure whether I understand them 100%
right), but at least this is how common sense works for me.

And we can always downgrade if needed.

> I'll keep you posted.

Thanks, I will be waiting.

Kirill