[Python-modules-team] Bug#657205: python-qt4-doc: qtdemo cannot launch a number of examples, and gives no hint

[Yann Dirson]

Package: python-qt4-doc
Version: 4.9-2
Severity: normal

I have not attempted to run all of the demos, but there are at least 3
categories of failure, with some examples listed here.  Do they
require additional packages ?  are they not shipped because of DFSG
conformance ? unsupported ? just broken ?

Furthermore, there is very few info about how to use this tool, it
could be good to advertise "qtdemo.py -help" in the README file,
although the short help is not enough to understand what they are
supposed to do (ever tried eg. "-menu1" ?), it may be worth to point
the reader to "qtdemo/colors.py" as where to start to look at to
understand them, it's not they place where sane people would look
first, IMHO.  Using "qtdemo.py -verbose" does not help.

So here is the list:

* those that don't say a thing
 - painting / basicdrawing
 - painting / svg
 - demos / textedit
 - demos / embedded

* those that say "Could not launch the example. Ensure that it has
  been built."
 - demos / samegame

* those for which the demo does not find doc about
 - demos / minehunt (which does launch, but only to a white window)
 - demos / osm (which does work)

-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (500, 'oldstable'), (101, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.1.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages python-qt4-doc depends on:
ii  libjs-jquery  1.7.1-1

python-qt4-doc recommends no packages.

Versions of packages python-qt4-doc suggests:
ii  qt4-doc  4:4.7.3-5

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