Updating Spyder3 on OpenSUSE Tumbleweed

[dangerousMoron]

Issue Report Checklist

• Searched the issues page for similar reports
• Read the relevant sections of the Spyder Troubleshooting Guide and followed its advice
• Reproduced the issue after updating with conda update spyder (or pip, if not using Anaconda)
• Could not reproduce inside jupyter qtconsole (if console-related)
• Tried basic troubleshooting (if a bug/error)
  • Restarted Spyder
  • Reset preferences with spyder --reset
  • Reinstalled the latest version of Anaconda
  • Tried the other applicable steps from the Troubleshooting Guide
• Completed the Problem Description, Steps to Reproduce and Version sections below

Problem Description

When I run sudo zypper dup I get the following issue from Spyder

Problem: spyder3-3.3.5-1.1.noarch requires python3-qtwebengine-qt5 < 5.13, 

but this requirement cannot be provided

 deleted providers: python3-qtwebengine-qt5-5.12-1.4.x86_64

Solution 1: Following actions will be done:

 deinstallation of spyder3-3.3.5-1.1.noarch
 deinstallation of spyder3-breakpoints-3.3.5-1.1.noarch
 deinstallation of spyder3-dicom-3.3.5-1.1.noarch
 deinstallation of spyder3-hdf5-3.3.5-1.1.noarch
 deinstallation of spyder3-lang-3.3.5-1.1.noarch
 deinstallation of spyder3-profiler-3.3.5-1.1.noarch
 deinstallation of spyder3-pylint-3.3.5-1.1.noarch
 deinstallation of spyder3-breakpoints-lang-3.3.5-1.1.noarch
 deinstallation of spyder3-profiler-lang-3.3.5-1.1.noarch
 deinstallation of spyder3-pylint-lang-3.3.5-1.1.noarch
Solution 2: keep obsolete python3-qtwebengine-qt5-5.12-1.4.x86_64
Solution 3: break spyder3-3.3.5-1.1.noarch by ignoring some of its dependencies

Running zypper search -s yields:

Loading repository data...
Reading installed packages...

S  | Name                    | Type    | Version    | Arch   | Repository           
---+-------------------------+---------+------------+--------+----------------------
i  | python3-qtwebengine-qt5 | package | 5.12-1.4   | x86_64 | (System Packages)    
v  | python3-qtwebengine-qt5 | package | 5.13.0-1.1 | x86_64 | Main Repository (OSS)
v  | python3-qtwebengine-qt5 | package | 5.13.0-1.1 | i586   | Main Repository (OSS)

Versions

• Spyder version: spyder3-3.3.5-1.1
• Python version: 3.7.3
• Qt version: 5.13.0
• PyQt version: 5.13.0
• Operating System name/version: OpenSUSE Tumbleweed

[bnavigator]

See https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1141974

Why does Spyder depend on pyqt5 < 5.13?

[ccordoba12]

Why does Spyder depend on pyqt5 < 5.13?

Because several things are failing with it.

I'm closing this because there's nothing we can do about it.

[bnavigator]

Because several things are failing with it.

Can you please elaborate on this a bit? OpenSUSE Tumbleweed does not seem to adhere to the version pinning so far. They might want to reconsider. From the commit log in setup.py it is not obvious, there it appears you just stick to 5.12 for "LTS" reasons.

[ccordoba12]

Please see #9883. Although that applies to Spyder 4, it probably applies to Spyder 3 too.

Also #9811, which applies to Spyder 3.

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From the commit log in setup.py it is not obvious, there it appears you just stick to 5.12 for "LTS" reasons.

We're a very small project with lots of users and don't have time to update our entire test suite to support the latest Qt/PyQt versions. What we decided to do is investing our efforts to only be in line with Qt LTS versions.

Besides, the vast majority of our installations (2.5M in 2018) are through Anaconda, which only updates Qt to its LTS versions too.

[bnavigator]

Understandable.

Although I experience the mentioned issues neither in Arch (Spyder 3.3.5) nor in Tumbleweed (Spyder 3.3.6) both with Qt 5.13.0