[PyQt] Problem with Sip for Py3 on Debian/Ubuntu

[Scott Kitterman]

On Tuesday, June 25, 2013 08:46:57 PM Shriramana Sharma wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 25, 2013 at 8:19 PM, Phil Thompson
> 
> <phil at riverbankcomputing.com> wrote:
> > The code generator is the same for all Python versions.
> 
> Hi thanks for this quick [as always! :-)] reply!
> 
> So then it seems to me that the packaging should be changed. Currently
> the sip4 source package (http://packages.debian.org/source/sid/sip4)
> produces these binary packages:
> 
> python-sip: runtime library
> python-sip-dbg: runtime library (debug extension)
> python-sip-dev: development files
> python-sip-doc: documentation
> python3-sip: runtime library
> python3-sip-dbg: runtime library (debug extension)
> python3-sip-dev: development files
> 
> It would seem that the common code generator should be moved to
> python-sip-dev-common and python-sip-dev and python3-sip-dev should
> both depend on it. python-sip-doc should also be moved to
> python-sip-doc-common.
> 
> Does that sound about right? If OK, I can file a Debian bug for this.

For those that care, this is fixed in Debian Unstable.  I didn't use that exact 
naming scheme, but the bottom line is that if you only need python3 then you 
only need to build-depend on python3-sip-dev.

Scott K