Bug#104576: dcoppython shadows python-pyqt
Package: dcoppython
Version: 2.1.1-0.2
Severity: critical
Tags: sid
dcoppython installs a qt.py in /usr/lib/python1.5, which shadows the qt.py in
/usr/lib/python1.5/site-packages from python-pyqt, making the PyQt package
unusable.
dcoppython is wrong because:
- addons should be installed to site-packages
- PyQt, although not in Debian as long as dcoppython, has a long
history (since KDE-1) of installing a "qt" extension module in
Python
- dcoppython should really depend on python-pyqt,
and not even include its own qt.py file!
- the qt.py from dcoppython is incomplete, from PyQt's point of view.
- dcoppython doesn't appear to be working anyways
I recommend coordinating with the python-pyqt maintainer:
Ricardo Cardenes <rcardenes@id-agora.com>
to get these two, soon to be important, packages cooperating.
-- System Information
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux bms 2.4.5 #2 Tue Jun 26 14:16:56 MDT 2001 i486
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C
Versions of packages dcoppython depends on:
ii kdelibs3 4:2.2.0-0beta1-5 KDE core libraries (runtime files)
ii libc6 2.2.3-6 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libjpeg62 6b-1.3 The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG
ii libpng2 1.0.11-1 PNG library - runtime
ii libqt2 2:2.3.1-5 Qt GUI Library (runtime version).
ii libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2 1:2.95.4-0.010703 The GNU stdc++ library
ii python-base 1.5.2-16 An interactive object-oriented scr
ii xlibs 4.0.3-4 X Window System client libraries
ii zlib1g 1:1.1.3-15 compression library - runtime
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