[Python-modules-team] Bug#601441: python-pyside.qtmultimedia dependency

[Didier 'OdyX' Raboud]

tags 601441 +wontfix
thanks 

> Hi,
> 
> When attempting to install the python-pyside metapackage I had to
> install the python-pyside.* packagees manually.
> 
> The problem is the dependency on python-pyside.qtmultimedia (>= 0.4.0-2)
> which is in turn dependent on libqt4-multimedia (>= 4:4.6.2).
> libqt4-multimedia does not exist anymore in the 4.7 release of Qt and
> since I have Qt4 installed from the experimental distribution (e. g.
> libqtgui4 (4:4.7.0~rc1-1)) I would have to downgrade to Qt 4.6 to be able
> to install python-pyside.
> 
> Therefore I would suggest to only recommend python-pyside.qtmultimedia
> for python-pyside.
> 
> Best regards and thanks for reading,
>   Rainer

Hi Rainer, and thanks for your bugreport, 

As pyside has been removed from Squeeze (due to the fact that it evolves too 
fast), I uploaded the latest new upstream versions for the build-dependency 
chain of PySide to unstable: apiextractor 0.8.1, generatorrunner 0.6.2 and 
shiboken 0.5.1.

I also got pyside 0.4.2 to experimental, but it is in NEW actually. This 
experimental version is compiled against Qt4.7 and drops the QtMultimedia module 
(in favour of the QtDeclarative).

PySide being very tied to Qt, it is not really possible to have one single 
pyside version for many Qt versions (so your case of using "4.6-Pyside" with 
Qt4.7 is not really planned).

So, as Qt4.7 is the future and as PySide will not reach Squeeze anyway, I will 
probably not upload new "4.6" versions of PySide, hence the "wontfix" tagging.

I hope you understand, cheers, 

OdyX

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