Re: [gentoo-dev] Up for grabs: dev-python/pyside2

[Andrew Ammerlaan]

On 13/08/2022 11:10, waebbl-gentoo@××××××.net wrote:
> On Fri, 12 Aug 2022 17:28:49 +0200
> Andrew Ammerlaan <andrewammerlaan@g.o> wrote:
>
>> On 29/07/2022 13:06, Ionen Wolkens wrote:
>>> On Fri, Jul 29, 2022 at 10:30:20AM +0000, waebbl-gentoo@××××××.net wrote:
>>>> On Sun, 17 Jul 2022 23:11:08 +0100
>>>> Sam James <sam@g.o> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Up for grabs because of inactivity.
>>>>>
>>>>> dev-python/pyside2 has several open bugs and a version bump pending.
>>>>>
>>>>> Needs some real love to tidy it up.
>>>>>
>>>>> Best,
>>>>> sam
>>>>
>>>> Wouldn't it be applicable to put these packages under the umbrella of
>>>> the Gentoo Qt project?
>>>
>>> It still need someone to maintain it either way, qt@ is rather small
>>> and Qt6 is likely to use up people's time already. Being m-n at least
>>> make its current state clear (up to qt@ though).
>>>
>>>> They're developed, published and hosted by the The Qt Company (in
>>>> contrast for example to PyQt5 or QtPy) and are only python
>>>> bindings for the Qt framework, although they're currently distributed
>>>> in a separate tarball and not with the Qt tarball.
>>>
>>> On a side-note I'll be adding PyQt6 to the tree once I can[1], but I
>>> don't use pyside for anything and probably won't be looking at pyside6.
>>>
>>> [1] https://github.com/gentoo/gentoo/pull/26504
>>
>> I've added myself as the maintainer of shiboken2 and pyside2(-tools). I
>> also added shiboken6 and pyside6(-tools) (masked for testing).
>> Unfortunately the latter is stuck on python3_10 only at the moment,
>> adding python3_11 to this is a whole new can of worms.
>>
>> Help with these packages is most welcome. They are notoriously difficult
>> and fragile.
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Andrew
>>
>
> Thanks Andrew for taking care of these packages. Like I said, I'd be
> happy to comaintain the packages and keep an additional two eyes on
> them.

Great! Would you like me to add you to the metadata.xml files so you'll 
get CC'ed on the bugs?

> In my draft[1] for pyside6, I've also found the python 3.11
> incompatibility and removed it for further investigation. However, what
> I noticed, is, that upstream only has compatibility for python3 up to
> 3.10. Closing my draft, now that the package has been merged into the
> tree.

I completely forgot to check for open PRs before starting to work on 
this, sorry about that. I could have saved myself a couple of hours of 
work if I had. Thanks for the PR anyway.
The python3_11 incompatibility probably requires some patch for 
shiboken6. It should be fixable considering that pyside2 does compile 
with python3_11 (after patching). In any case it is not urgent since it 
is still masked.

Best regards,
Andrew