[Python-modules-team] Bug#779369: pyqt5-examples missing dependencies python3-pyqt5.{qtquick, qtopengl, qtmultimedia, qtsvg} etc.

[Scott Kitterman]

On Sunday, March 01, 2015 08:39:53 PM Chris Bainbridge wrote:
> On 1 March 2015 at 17:21, Scott Kitterman <debian at kitterman.com> wrote:
> > On Friday, February 27, 2015 07:43:08 PM Chris Bainbridge wrote:
> > > Package: pyqt5-examples
> > > Version: 5.3.2+dfsg-3
> > > Severity: normal
> > > 
> > > Dear Maintainer,
> > > 
> > > pyqt5-examples should depend on all the libraries necessary to run the
> > > examples.
> > 
> > ...
> > 
> > We've discussed this a bit and don't really agree with the premise.  The
> > examples are provided as part of the documentation that goes with PyQt5
> > and  are not really meant to be executed without further consideration.
> 
> Is this consistent with other "-examples" packages in Debian? Afaics the
> "qt*5-example" packages all have proper dependencies and are executable
> after installation, as are qt4-demos, and non-executable examples are
> usually put in a "-doc" package (like python-qt4-doc).

It's more complicated than that.  If we were going to make the examples 
executable based on depends, we'd have to provide both python and python3 
versions and split them into sub-packages to keep from pulling in excessive 
dependencies.  For this package, it doesn't seem like a reasonable thing to 
do.

Scott K