Re: deb pkg for PsychoPy

[Andreas Tille <andreas@fam-tille.de>]

Hi Jon,

On Wed, May 05, 2021 at 01:32:21PM +0000, Jon Peirce wrote:
> OK, thanks both. I'll use the debian-med@lists.debian.org email from here on and I'll do my best to get reportbug running on a VM.

I never used Ubuntu but I have heard that there is a way to report bugs
right to Debian from a running Ubuntu machine.  This link looks a bit
aged but it was top ranking in my web search:

   https://help.ubuntu.com/community/reportbug

> Oh, and is there a page somewhere to check on the release schedules (like freeze dates)? Maybe I can leave myself a note to check in with you at more appropriate times 

This page names freeze dates:

   https://release.debian.org/bullseye/freeze_policy.html

The release date (after which we can start uploading new versions again)
is not yet fixed.  Here is the latest information about the status

   https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2021/05/msg00000.html

> thanks

Thanks to you for your cooperation

    Andreas.

 
> —
> Jon Peirce
> 
> 
> Open Science Tools Ltd
> Creators of PsychoPy and Pavlovia.org
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> --- original message ---
> On May 3, 2021, 9:17 PM GMT+1 nilesh@debian.org wrote:
> 
> On 03/05/21 09:44 PM, Andreas Tille wrote:
> 
> >> Hi Jon,
> 
> >> 
> 
> >> On Mon, May 03, 2021 at 07:28:39PM +0000, Jon Peirce wrote:
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> >> > Thanks for your help providing PsychoPy as a package via Debian Med.
> 
> >> 
> 
> >> Thanks in return for your very helpful comments.
> 
> >> 
> 
> >> For the next stable release (bullseye) we can't do anything anymore
> 
> >> since we are in deep freeze. However, your very detailed hints are a
> 
> >> very nice and structured todo list. We should make sure that we will
> 
> >> not loose this out of focus and thus it would be very valuable if you
> 
> >> would consider filing a bug report instead of a mail to some (not
> 
> >> really) random team members. So if you would be so kind to simply
> 
> >> (I know its not considered simple) fire up
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> >> 
> 
> >> reportbug python3-psychopy
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> >> 
> 
> >> and simply copy your mail into the editor interface of reportbug.
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> >> 
> 
> >> This would ensure we will not simply forget to work on the package.
> 
> 
> > +1
> 
> 
> >> > I've been doing a fair bit of packaging and installing work recently as we move our test suite from Travis to GH Actions and I noticed the last version wasn't quite sufficient to fully install on a clean ubuntu VM. There was relatively little work to get it there (as listed below) but I wonder if we can get that added to your packaging flow.
> 
> >> > 
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> >> > 
> 
> >> > Some of the things were missing python packages that could be fetched with pip. The trickiest is the wxPython package - it seems you had provided a wxPython package as part of the installation but I think it didn't have all the dylibs it needed. I was able to fix that on this version of python/ubuntu by installing forcing a new install of a wheel as below. Wheels aren't available for all *nix versions though so building is the right thing to do. I think I have a setup on GitHub that reliably builds it now so I can probably help there.
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> >> > 
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> >> > 
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> >> > For info about our releases, we've recently pushed out our 4th bug-fix release of the current series (2021.1.4) which is the current recommended version, and we're now working towards our next major feature release in June.
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> 
> > Thanks a lot for all your work there!
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> 
> >> > 
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> >> > By the way, is there a preferred way I should contact you guys 
> 
> 
> > Yes, it'd be best if you could contact us at the mailing list: debian-med@lists.debian.org
> 
> > We all read it and there are several people doing packaging actively
> 
> > there who would be able to chime in as well.
> 
> > You can subscribe to the list here if you'd like: https://lists.debian.org/debian-med/
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> 
> >> > (I see there's a mailing list called Debian-med-packaging?) 
> 
> 
> > Not many people are subscribed to -packaging mailing list due to low
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> > signal to noise ratio, at least I'm not. The list I mentioned above works best.
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> 
> >> > Let me know if there's anything else I can do to help
> 
> 
> > It's really helpful that you are testing the package at your end.
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> 
> > Thanks a lot,
> 
> > Nilesh
> --- end of original message ---

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