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Bug#895718: python-pyqt5: import PyQt5.QtCore fails



On Mon, May 14, 2018 at 10:41:47AM -0300, Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer wrote:
> = On the reproducible side:
> - Ben Hutchings marked #876035 as minor
> <https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=876035#16>
> I do not understand the rationale but he is the kernel maintainer so I'll
> simply trust him here.

The rationale is that this is a very uncommon configuration (an i386
with loads of RAM).

> - They are using oldstable, which is clearly something we do not intend to
> support with Qt 5.10. With our maintainer hat on: of course if there is
> something we can do the better, but within some limits, like what upstream
> expects.

*we are not using oldstable*, at least not in the way I understand your
sentence.
That Qt 5.10 is running in regular unstable chroots.
We are simply using a tad older kernel from second-last LTS release.

Consider that glibc currently requires Linux 3.2.

> - We do not know the impact we create by disabling the getentropy feature. And
> normally that stuff is related to criptography. Believe me I don't want to
> mess with that.

That's my fear as well indeed :(
What do you recomend to look at to discover what uses that feature?

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