[Bug 342782] Re: python-qwt5-qt4 will not install on Jaunty alpha 6

[Rasmus Nyström]

After some further investigation I can conclude that this is the same
bug for both pyqwt.

The reason for the bug is that upstream (debian) at least was using
python 2.5 as a standard. So this is not a bug upstream. I do not know
what their running as default in unstable at the moment.

In the case of pyqwt the problem is that python 2.6 is not supported. So
the package need to change name to python2.5-qwt4 or something like
that. I do have a patch this package that I can post later.

Regarding pyqwt5 it should support python 2.6. At least according på
upstream (pyqwt). So in that case It seems to be enough to create a
separate package for python2.5 and one python. At least that seems to
work when I tried this.

Both those fixes included doing very bad stuff with the sip code on
order to get sip to preprocess it. pyqwt themselves says that sip 4.7.x
should work with both releases so I'm not sure I'm looking in correct
place.

What I find really strange is that both those packages could have been
caught by automatic builds and installs tests on the ubuntu side. Both
packages should have been excluded from the distribution or fixed for
that matter.

A note about the following patch. The patch renames python-qwt4 to
python2.5-qwt4 and instead provides python-qwt4. That since the only
need I seem to have for package is to resolve dependencies. I also
uncommented a huge chunck of code reagarding QwkMemArray. I still don't
know what effect of that is. But at least it compiles =)

** Attachment added: "Patch for pyqwt-4.2.3.dfsg source package to make work in jaunty."
   http://launchpadlibrarian.net/26139863/pyqwt-4.2.3.tat.patch.gz

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