[Python-modules-team] Bug#614974: python-qt4: FTBFS: python-qt4 missing files (usr/lib/python*/*-packages/PyQt4/QtAssistant.so), aborting

[Jakub Wilk]

Source: python-qt4
Version: 4.7.3-1
Severity: serious
Justification: fails to build from source

python-qt4 FTBFS in an up-to-date sid chroot with the following error:

| dh_install -a
| dh_install: python-qt4 missing files (usr/lib/python*/*-packages/PyQt4/QtAssistant.so), aborting
| make: *** [install-arch] Error 2

Running configure.py with the --verbose options reveals what is the culprit:

| g++ -DQT_NO_DEBUG -I. -I/usr/mkspecs/linux-g++ -I/usr/include/qt4/QtAssistant -I/usr/include/qt4/QtGui -I/usr/include/qt4/QtNetwork -I/usr/include/qt4 -I/usr/X11R6/include -pipe -Os -w -D_REENTRANT cfgtest_QtAssistant.cpp -o cfgtest_QtAssistant -L/usr/lib -L/usr/X11R6/lib -Wl,-O1 -lQtAssistantClient -lQtGui -lQtNetwork/usr/bin/ld: /tmp/ccF3ZBv6.o: undefined reference to symbol 'QString::free(QString::Data*)'
| /usr/bin/ld: note: 'QString::free(QString::Data*)' is defined in DSO //usr/lib/libQtCore.so.4 so try adding it to the linker command line
| //usr/lib/libQtCore.so.4: could not read symbols: Invalid operation
| collect2: ld returned 1 exit status

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Jakub Wilk