Re: Q: Python 2 vs Python 3 and wxgtk2.8 vs wxgtk3.0

[Karsten Hilbert <Karsten.Hilbert@gmx.net>]

On Mon, Jul 07, 2014 at 11:55:15PM +0200, Rene Engelhard wrote:

> [ I filed the bug against GNUmed to migrate to python3. Dropping that
> bug in my reply since it has NOTHING to do with the real bug.

Thanks to your report, however, I started looking into the
state of affairs which is why I mentioned and included
that bug in my initial post so people (looking at the bug)
can see where things are going.

> At least
> a new bug "wxwidgets should provide a python3 package" then blocks the
> gnumed bug, but it's not something one should handle there ]

I have filed against wxwidgets3.0 and python-wxgtk2.8 asking
for python3-wxgtkXX and/or python-wxgtk3.0. Let's see what
happens.

> On Mon, Jul 07, 2014 at 10:47:28PM +0200, Karsten Hilbert wrote:
> > GNUmed (an Electronic Medical Record System) runs under
> > Python 2 with wxPython 2.8 and it Depends: on python-uno.
> 
> thankfully the package only Recommends: python-uno..

Which we have now also demoted to Suggests:.

> # apt-cache show python-wxgtk2.8
...
> Maintainer: wxWidgets Maintainers <freewx-maint@lists.alioth.debian.org>
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
...
> debian-python doesn't maintain wxwidgets

Sure, but it does not seem imprudent to assume that wxPython
packaging related people just might be reading this list :-)

Or else someone who simply knows what the current position is
(which is what I asked about -- I did NOT ask this list for
providing a package).

> > What's the current Debian position ?
> 
> TTBOMK the position is "build a python3 variant if your package supports
> python3 and try to port it".

Thanks. "it" would be - wxpython (as in python3-wxgtkXX ?)

I cannot currently (on Debian) build a python3 variant of our
application because I cannot test it with wxgtk (2.8 or 3.0,
on Debian).

I am not so much concerned about the python(3)-uno side of
things. If that (convenient, thanks) Debian hack goes away we
can work around that.

Thanks,
Karsten
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