[Python-modules-team] Bug#794765: Please provide debug build of pyside

[Didier 'OdyX' Raboud]

Le mercredi, 12 août 2015, 16.00:22 Goswin von Brederlow a écrit :
> > Le jeudi, 6 août 2015, 14.40:10 Goswin von Brederlow a écrit :
> > > every now and then pyside crashes with a segfault. Most often
> > > because
> > > it doesn't play nice with the python GC and widgets have to keep
> > > python objects stored in C++ alive manually. But sometimes it
> > > isn't obvious where and why pyside segfaults. For those it would
> > > be nice if one could use python3-dbg and get better gdb backtraces
> > > for the application. But this requires a debug build of pyside.
> > > 
> > > Please provide a debug build of pyside.
> > 
> > Since 1.0.9-2, debug packages are not built anymore, as they were
> > huge to build and resulted in insanely big binary packages, see
> > http://snapshot.debian.org/package/pyside/1.0.9-1/ .
>
> The -dbg build got " 1% tests passed, 405 tests failed out of 408".
> Lots of failures in refrence counts, tests/QtGui/qmainwindow_test.py
> and tests/QtWebKit/shouldInterruptjavascript_test.py hang and need to
> be manually killed, lots of segfaults in the tests and finally:

Yes. This was the other problem with debug builds: there is something 
fishy going on with python-dbg builds and tests. Upstream is basically 
unresponsive and I'm reaching my limits (in terms of competences, as 
well as motivation).

Frankly, I'm only a PySide maintainer because I was initially interested 
in it in the context of debian-mobile, but I'm not at all using PySide 
(although I like the idea of doing Qt in python). So the status is "not 
actively involved, but welcoming patches". I'm happy to hand 
maintainership over too, only staying because I feel responsible 
(although less and less).

> When was the last time you did a debug build?

For 1.0.9-2, apparently.

> PS: That's why I want debug packages from the start no matter how big
> they are. If they aren't autobuild then by the time you need them they
> don't work.

I welcome patches though… :) I know it's an easy answer, but that's the 
best one I can offer.

Cheers,
OdyX
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