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From Barry Scott@21:1/5 to All on Sat Dec 31 18:40:01 2022

How do I file a request to get QScintilla packaged for debian testing?

There is the python3-pyqt5 package, but the qt6 version is missing.

Barry

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There are already some QScintilla Qt6 packages. Is one of these the one you are looking
for?

https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=qscintilla2-qt6[1]

On Saturday, December 31, 2022 10:30:44 AM MST Barry Scott wrote:

How do I file a request to get QScintilla packaged for debian testing?

There is the python3-pyqt5 package, but the qt6 version is missing.

Barry

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From Barry Scott@21:1/5 to Soren Stoutner on Sat Dec 31 23:20:01 2022

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On 31/12/2022 17:38, Soren Stoutner wrote:

There are already some QScintilla Qt6 packages. Is one of these the
one you are looking for?

https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=qscintilla2-qt6

That will be the C binding for Scintilla. Its a build dep of PyQt6.

I need the python3 version. Only the old PyQt5 version is available.
And I've ported all my code to PyQt6.

If the maintainer is stuck I know enough about building PyQt6 to be helpful.

I had to build it in Copr for my use on Fedora. FYI Copr is the service
that allows
users to build repos of code that not build as part of the official Fedora releases.

Here are my repos for example https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/barryascott/

Barry

On Saturday, December 31, 2022 10:30:44 AM MST Barry Scott wrote:

How do I file a request to get QScintilla packaged for debian testing?

There is the python3-pyqt5 package, but the qt6 version is missing.

Barry

--

Soren Stoutner

[email protected]

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are already some QScintilla Qt6 packages. Is one of these the
one you are looking for?
 
<a href="https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=qscintilla2-qt6"
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That will be the C binding for Scintilla. Its a build dep of
PyQt6. 

I need the python3 version. Only the old PyQt5 version is
available. 
And I've ported all my code to PyQt6. 

If the maintainer is stuck I know enough about building PyQt6 to
be helpful.
I had to build it in Copr for my use on Fedora. FYI Copr is the
service that allows 
users to build repos of code that not build as part of the
official Fedora 
releases.
Here are my repos for example
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/barryascott/">https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/barryascott/</a> 

Barry
 

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Saturday, December 31, 2022 10:30:44 AM MST Barry Scott wrote:
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How do I file a request to get QScintilla packaged for debian
testing?
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>
There is the python3-pyqt5 package, but the qt6 version is
missing.
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Barry
 
 
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From Soren Stoutner@21:1/5 to Barry Scott on Sat Dec 31 23:40:01 2022

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Is this the package you are looking for?

https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=python3-pyqt6.qsci

https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/qscintilla2

On December 31, 2022 3:14:43 PM MST, Barry Scott <[email protected]> wrote:

On 31/12/2022 17:38, Soren Stoutner wrote:

There are already some QScintilla Qt6 packages. Is one of these the one you are looking for?

https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=qscintilla2-qt6

That will be the C binding for Scintilla. Its a build dep of PyQt6.

I need the python3 version. Only the old PyQt5 version is available.
And I've ported all my code to PyQt6.

If the maintainer is stuck I know enough about building PyQt6 to be helpful.

I had to build it in Copr for my use on Fedora. FYI Copr is the service that allows
users to build repos of code that not build as part of the official Fedora >releases.

Here are my repos for example https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/barryascott/

Barry

On Saturday, December 31, 2022 10:30:44 AM MST Barry Scott wrote:

How do I file a request to get QScintilla packaged for debian testing?

There is the python3-pyqt5 package, but the qt6 version is missing.

Barry

--

Soren Stoutner

[email protected]

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<body>Is this the package you are looking for? <a href="https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=python3-pyqt6.qsci">https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=python3-pyqt6.qsci</a> <a href="https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/qscintilla2"

https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/qscintilla2</a> <div class="gmail_quote">On December 31, 2022 3:14:43 PM MST, Barry Scott <[email protected]> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px

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Click on the tracker (the second link). It will tell you why it is not in testing. Specifically, it tells you this is the problem:

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1027416

Which has just been fixed.

You can either wait 5 days for it to migrate to testing, or you can edit your apt/sources.list file and add in entries for unstable (you can list sources for more than one repository). Run `apt update` to update the indexes for all the repositories.
Don’t run ` apt upgrade` unless you want to upgrade to everything in unstable, which could have negative consequences. Do run `apt install python3-pyqt6-qsci pyqt6.qsci-dev` which will pull in all the needed packages from unstable to install these on
your system but otherwise leave all the testing packages. Then edit sources.list and comment out the unstable lines.

On December 31, 2022 3:39:19 PM MST, Barry <[email protected]> wrote:

On 31 Dec 2022, at 22:32, Soren Stoutner <[email protected]> wrote:

Is this the package you are looking for?

https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=python3-pyqt6.qsci

Yes that is what i am after. Debian testing does not have it available.

This is where i need help understanding what i do to get that deb.

It says thats its available for sid? But testing is bookworm.

Does the dev need to push a build for bookwork?

Barry

https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/qscintilla2

On December 31, 2022 3:14:43 PM MST, Barry Scott <[email protected]> wrote:

On 31/12/2022 17:38, Soren Stoutner wrote:

There are already some QScintilla Qt6 packages. Is one of these the one you are looking for?

https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=qscintilla2-qt6

That will be the C binding for Scintilla. Its a build dep of PyQt6.

I need the python3 version. Only the old PyQt5 version is available.
And I've ported all my code to PyQt6.

If the maintainer is stuck I know enough about building PyQt6 to be helpful.

I had to build it in Copr for my use on Fedora. FYI Copr is the service that allows
users to build repos of code that not build as part of the official Fedora releases.

Here are my repos for example https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/barryascott/

Barry

On Saturday, December 31, 2022 10:30:44 AM MST Barry Scott wrote:

How do I file a request to get QScintilla packaged for debian testing?

There is the python3-pyqt5 package, but the qt6 version is missing.

Barry

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<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto">Click on the tracker (the second link). It will tell you why it is not in testing. Specifically, it tells you this is the problem: <a href="
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1027416">https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1027416</a> Which has just been fixed. You can either wait 5 days for it to migrate to testing, or you can edit your apt/sources.
list file and add in entries for unstable (you can list sources for more than one repository). Run `apt update` to update the indexes for all the repositories. Don’t run ` apt upgrade` unless you want to upgrade to everything in unstable, which
could have negative consequences. Do run `apt install python3-pyqt6-qsci pyqt6.qsci-dev` wh

From Sebastiaan Couwenberg@21:1/5 to Barry on Sun Jan 1 00:10:01 2023

On 12/31/22 23:39, Barry wrote:

This is where i need help understanding what i do to get that deb.

Wait for it to migrate to testing. Keep an eye on the excuses:

https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/qscintilla2

Or install it from unstable in the meantime.

Testing migration is complicated by the ongoing qt6baseabi-6.4.2
transition. pyqt6 is not rebuilt for that yet:

https://release.debian.org/transitions/html/qt6baseabi-6.4.2.html

Kind Regards,

Bas

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From Barry Scott@21:1/5 to Sebastiaan Couwenberg on Sun Jan 1 19:50:01 2023

On 31/12/2022 22:49, Sebastiaan Couwenberg wrote:

On 12/31/22 23:39, Barry wrote:

This is where i need help understanding what i do to get that deb.

Wait for it to migrate to testing. Keep an eye on the excuses:

https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/qscintilla2

Or install it from unstable in the meantime.

What is the sources.list line I would need to install from unstable?

Testing migration is complicated by the ongoing qt6baseabi-6.4.2
transition. pyqt6 is not rebuilt for that yet: https://release.debian.org/transitions/html/qt6baseabi-6.4.2.html

Understood - I guess that means that I'll end up pulling in 6.4.2
packages as well from unstable.

Barry

Kind Regards,

Bas

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From Barry@21:1/5 to All on Mon Jan 2 09:00:01 2023

On 1 Jan 2023, at 19:39, Mechtilde <[email protected]> wrote:

Hello Barry,

Am 01.01.23 um 19:42 schrieb Barry Scott:

On 31/12/2022 22:49, Sebastiaan Couwenberg wrote:
On 12/31/22 23:39, Barry wrote:

This is where i need help understanding what i do to get that deb.

Wait for it to migrate to testing. Keep an eye on the excuses:

https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/qscintilla2

Or install it from unstable in the meantime.

What is the sources.list line I would need to install from unstable?

If you don't know it, you don't want to do it in a stable environment.

I have decades of development experience, but debian is new to me and I do not know its ways.

It is better to set up a virtuell maschine and install there a Debian unstable system.

I am running debian 11, debian testing abd unbuntu 22.10 as VMs under Fedora 37 in virt managed.

Or use a buildsystem which use a chroot or something else.

I need to install pyqt qsci to test the built code anyway so…

What is the stanza to get to these debs please?

Barry

Testing migration is complicated by the ongoing qt6baseabi-6.4.2 transition. pyqt6 is not rebuilt for that yet:
https://release.debian.org/transitions/html/qt6baseabi-6.4.2.html

Understood - I guess that means that I'll end up pulling in 6.4.2 packages as well from unstable.
Barry

Kind Regards,

Bas

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From Andrew M.A. Cater@21:1/5 to Barry on Mon Jan 2 10:40:02 2023

On Mon, Jan 02, 2023 at 07:50:53AM +0000, Barry wrote:

I need to install pyqt qsci to test the built code anyway so…

What is the stanza to get to these debs please?

deb http://deb.debian.org/debian/ sid main contrib non-free
deb-src http://deb.debian.org/debian/ sid main contrib non-free

So essentially these two lines where sid replaces the distribution name bookworm

Hope this helps,

Andy Cater

Barry

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From Soren Stoutner@21:1/5 to All on Mon Jan 2 08:50:56 2023

Copy: [email protected] (Andrew M.A. Cater)

Edit /etc/apt/sources.list to have the following contents:

deb http://deb.debian.org/debian/ testing main contrib non-free
deb-src http://deb.debian.org/debian/ testing main contrib non-free

deb http://deb.debian.org/debian/ unstable main contrib non-free

Then run the apt commands mentioned previously to install the packages you want from unstable. Newer packages will always be prioritized over older packages, so it is fine having both testing and unstable listed as repositories
at the same time.

Then edit the contents of /etc/apt/sources.list to be the following:

deb http://deb.debian.org/debian/ testing main contrib non-free
deb-src http://deb.debian.org/debian/ testing main contrib non-free

#deb http://deb.debian.org/debian/ unstable main contrib non-free

The commented out line removes the unstable repository, but makes it easy to add back in whenever you need it.

Soren

On Monday, January 2, 2023 2:36:59 AM MST Andrew M.A. Cater wrote:

On Mon, Jan 02, 2023 at 07:50:53AM +0000, Barry wrote:

I need to install pyqt qsci to test the built code anyway so…

What is the stanza to get to these debs please?

deb http://deb.debian.org/debian/ sid main contrib non-free
deb-src http://deb.debian.org/debian/ sid main contrib non-free

So essentially these two lines where sid replaces the distribution name bookworm

Hope this helps,

Andy Cater

Barry

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From Barry Scott@21:1/5 to Soren Stoutner on Mon Jan 2 21:30:01 2023

On 02/01/2023 15:50, Soren Stoutner wrote:

Edit /etc/apt/sources.list to have the following contents:

deb http://deb.debian.org/debian/ testing main contrib non-free
deb-src http://deb.debian.org/debian/ testing main contrib non-free

deb http://deb.debian.org/debian/ unstable main contrib non-free

Then run the apt commands mentioned previously to install the packages you want from unstable. Newer packages will always be prioritized over older packages, so it is fine having both testing and unstable listed as repositories
at the same time.

I notices that repos can have multiple version of the same package.
And that it picks the newest from the set of repos. Also allows installing
a specific older version. Thats the same as the RPM world.

Then edit the contents of /etc/apt/sources.list to be the following:

deb http://deb.debian.org/debian/ testing main contrib non-free
deb-src http://deb.debian.org/debian/ testing main contrib non-free

#deb http://deb.debian.org/debian/ unstable main contrib non-free

I'm adding repos to /etc/apt/source.list.d/<reponame>.list

Then I can do mv to .list.disabled to drop the repo without editing the
lines.

FYI in the Fedora world this is built into the tooling.

A .repo file has an "enabled=" attribute. For testing repos its set to 0.

Then to install all you need to do is this.

$ dnf install --refresh --enablerepo=*testing <package-of-interest>

The --refresh does the "apt update" dance.

The commented out line removes the unstable repository, but makes it easy to add back in whenever you need it.

Barry

Soren

On Monday, January 2, 2023 2:36:59 AM MST Andrew M.A. Cater wrote:

On Mon, Jan 02, 2023 at 07:50:53AM +0000, Barry wrote:

I need to install pyqt qsci to test the built code anyway so…

What is the stanza to get to these debs please?

deb http://deb.debian.org/debian/ sid main contrib non-free
deb-src http://deb.debian.org/debian/ sid main contrib non-free

So essentially these two lines where sid replaces the distribution name
bookworm

Hope this helps,

Andy Cater

Barry

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