After emerging sci-geosciences/qgis-3.0.0, executing qgis in a terminal and pressing Ctrl+Alt+P, typing "from PyQt4.QtCore import *" and pressing enter causes a crash. 4 might be the wrong version of PyQt, but the wrong command is not handled well. Quite a few users may have a command like that in a script from a previous version.
"4" IS the wrong version of PyQt. This is not a bug packaging can fix, please raise this bug upstream.
(if they even consider it a bug)
The bug has been closed via the following commit(s): https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=75c011e1af02a364d4f3ae9e93f8695658eb3cdc commit 75c011e1af02a364d4f3ae9e93f8695658eb3cdc Author: Andreas Sturmlechner <asturm@gentoo.org> AuthorDate: 2018-02-27 14:49:07 +0000 Commit: Andreas Sturmlechner <asturm@gentoo.org> CommitDate: 2018-02-27 16:13:30 +0000 sci-geosciences/qgis: Add overly considerate pkg_postinst info Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/648948 Package-Manager: Portage-2.3.24, Repoman-2.3.6 sci-geosciences/qgis/qgis-3.0.0.ebuild | 3 +++ sci-geosciences/qgis/qgis-9999.ebuild | 3 +++ 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+)
The bug is not that "Old scripts may not work anymore." but rather "Old scripts will cause the whole program to crash." or actually "This particular input will cause the program to crash." I understand that it may not be a packaging problem. The answer to the question whether upstream considers it a bug depends on whether they consider a script that the user runs to be input to the program or a modification of the program itself. Of course, a program should not crash on any input. I as a user assumed that my script was input to the program.
