[Python-modules-team] RM of shiboken & pyside ?

[Dmitry Shachnev]

Hi Didier and Scott,

On July 6, 2016 7:32:22 AM GMT+03:00, Scott Kitterman <debian at kitterman.com> wrote:
> On Tuesday, July 05, 2016 06:00:25 PM Didier 'OdyX' Raboud wrote:
> > Hi there,
> > 
> > Now that we have PyOtherSide in Debian, and that both shiboken and
> > PySide are somewhat broken in sid & stretch; what about just
> removing
> > them from Debian ?
> > 
> > I'm not a PySide user myself, and it's abandonned upstream…
> 
> If it's dead, let's remove it.
> 
> Scott K

It is not dead according to Git activity:

https://code.qt.io/cgit/pyside/shiboken.git/
https://code.qt.io/cgit/pyside/pyside.git/

PyOtherSide is a project with different functionality, so having it is not a reason for removing PySide. However we have PyQt5, and that can count as such reason.

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Dmitry Shachnev