Critical issue with latest QScintilla wheels

[Phil Thompson]

On 14/05/2023 17:02, Detlev Offenbach wrote:
> Am 14.05.23 um 17:51 schrieb Phil Thompson:
>> On 05/05/2023 10:11, Detlev Offenbach wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>> 
>>> I just updated PyQt6-QScintilla to the latest version on a Debian
>>> Bullseye system (Debian 11.7). Unfortunately that does not work
>>> because PyQt6-WScintilla 2.14.0 is compiled against libc 2.32 while
>>> Debian has libc 2.31. The same issue will happen on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS.
>>> 
>>> The error message is:
>>>>>> from PyQt6.Qsci import QScintilla
>>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>>>   File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
>>> ImportError: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.32' 
>>> not
>>> found (required by
>>> ~/environments/eric7_env/lib/python3.9/site-packages/PyQt6/Qsci.abi3.so)
>>> 
>>> Would it be possible to provide PyQt6-QScintilla wheel compatible 
>>> with
>>> these distros as well?
>> 
>> There is a bug in that the wheel tag should be manylinux_2_32 which 
>> would mean that a distro with an old glibc would instead install 
>> v2.13.4 and run correctly. I will fix that.
>> 
>> The underlying issue is when to drop support for older distros. I take 
>> my cue from the current list of supported platforms...
>> 
>> https://doc.qt.io/qt-6/supported-platforms.html
>> 
>> Qt v6.5 started to use Ubuntu 22.04 LTS, so I did too. I see that a 
>> new version of Debian is due next month.
> 
> That is right. However, Debian Bullseye will still exist for some
> time. And the up-to-date openSUSE still uses the old glibc (2.31).
> Nevertheless, at least eric can work with both QScintilla versions. If
> the wheel tag gets fixed and the automatism pulls the right version
> again, that would be OK for me.

Now fixed. However you may want to use '--prefer-binary' with pip to 
avoid it trying to build the latest version from source (which will work 
if you get the all the extra pip flags correct).

Phil