Re: "calibre" package fails to build.

[Andreas Enge]

Hello Matthew,

On Thu, Jun 28, 2018 at 05:01:55PM -0500, Matthew Brooks wrote:
> It's also several versions out of date, according to the website. Which lists 
> 3.26.1 as the latest version, while 3.17 is the latest in the guix repo:
> https://calibre-ebook.com/whats-new
> (This might be the cause of the error, since I remember reading that calibre 
> is tightly bound to specific versions of QT, but I don't have the link to the 
> forum post it was in.)

I just updated our package to the most recent one, 3.28.0, and it now
builds. However, I forgot to test it, and running it fails with
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File 
"/gnu/store/brj5xv8zqa1w7byz8b1fz0fd1hmy3kd4-calibre-3.28.0/bin/.calibre-real", 
line 20, in <module>
    sys.exit(calibre())
  File 
"/gnu/store/brj5xv8zqa1w7byz8b1fz0fd1hmy3kd4-calibre-3.28.0/lib/calibre/calibre/gui_launch.py",
 line 74, in calibre
    main(args)
  File 
"/gnu/store/brj5xv8zqa1w7byz8b1fz0fd1hmy3kd4-calibre-3.28.0/lib/calibre/calibre/gui2/main.py",
 line 567, in main
    gui_debug=gui_debug)
  File 
"/gnu/store/brj5xv8zqa1w7byz8b1fz0fd1hmy3kd4-calibre-3.28.0/lib/calibre/calibre/gui2/main.py",
 line 396, in run_gui
    from calibre.gui2.ui import Main
  File 
"/gnu/store/brj5xv8zqa1w7byz8b1fz0fd1hmy3kd4-calibre-3.28.0/lib/calibre/calibre/gui2/ui.py",
 line 43, in <module>
    from calibre.gui2.init import LibraryViewMixin, LayoutMixin
  File 
"/gnu/store/brj5xv8zqa1w7byz8b1fz0fd1hmy3kd4-calibre-3.28.0/lib/calibre/calibre/gui2/init.py",
 line 19, in <module>
    from calibre.gui2.library.views import BooksView, DeviceBooksView
  File 
"/gnu/store/brj5xv8zqa1w7byz8b1fz0fd1hmy3kd4-calibre-3.28.0/lib/calibre/calibre/gui2/library/views.py",
 line 19, in <module>
    from calibre.gui2.library.delegates import (RatingDelegate, PubDateDelegate,
  File 
"/gnu/store/brj5xv8zqa1w7byz8b1fz0fd1hmy3kd4-calibre-3.28.0/lib/calibre/calibre/gui2/library/delegates.py",
 line 24, in <module>
    from calibre.gui2.dialogs.comments_dialog import CommentsDialog, 
PlainTextDialog
  File 
"/gnu/store/brj5xv8zqa1w7byz8b1fz0fd1hmy3kd4-calibre-3.28.0/lib/calibre/calibre/gui2/dialogs/comments_dialog.py",
 line 9, in <module>
    from calibre.gui2.dialogs.comments_dialog_ui import Ui_CommentsDialog
  File 
"/gnu/store/brj5xv8zqa1w7byz8b1fz0fd1hmy3kd4-calibre-3.28.0/lib/calibre/calibre/gui2/dialogs/comments_dialog_ui.py",
 line 40, in <module>
    from calibre.gui2.comments_editor import Editor
  File 
"/gnu/store/brj5xv8zqa1w7byz8b1fz0fd1hmy3kd4-calibre-3.28.0/lib/calibre/calibre/gui2/comments_editor.py",
 line 17, in <module>
    from PyQt5.QtWebKitWidgets import QWebView, QWebPage
ImportError: No module named QtWebKitWidgets

So this needs to be corrected with respect to the disappearance of
QtWebKitWidgets from Qt, I will have a look now. (So far, I think there
is no point in reverting the commit to get back from a non-working to
a non-compiling calibre...)

Andreas