[Python-modules-team] Bug#835991: python3-pyqt5: Slot decorators no longer work

[Florian Bruhin]

* Salvo Tomaselli <tiposchi at tiscali.it> [2016-08-29 22:49:55 +0200]:
> Package: python3-pyqt5
> Version: 5.7+dfsg-2
> Severity: important
> 
> Dear Maintainer,
> 
> Slots used to be decorated with things like
> 
> @QtCore.pyqtSlot(object)
> 
> Now having these causes a crash.

Note that's only the case when pyqtSlot is used incorrectly (with the
wrong types, or on something which is not a QObject), which was
silently ignored in earlier versions.

> As a result qweborf is completely unusable now.
> 
> It seems that the last version of pyqt was a major release with
> incompatibilities that perhaps needed a mass bug filling.

That'd indeed be a qweborf bug then. But yeah, when I noticed the
change I already wondered how much will be impacted... my own project
certainly was ;)

Florian

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