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Packages for Pi Face Control and Display in Raspian Buster missing #161

Closed leprovokateur closed 4 years ago

leprovokateur commented 4 years ago

Hi,

The needed packages for the Pi Face Control and Display are missing in Raspian Buster, similar to https://github.com/RPi-Distro/repo/issues/3 Please provide them.

Best regards, Robert

GeoMaciolek commented 4 years ago

Robert - can you be somewhat more specific? Names of packages, etc? (And, is this problem new to the Buster release?)

leprovokateur commented 4 years ago

Hi,

With deb http://archive.raspberrypi.org/debian/ stretch main in the /etc/apt/sources.list.d/raspi.list I get with a aptitude search piface, with buster I don't:

p pifacedigital-emulator - Emulator for the PiFace Digital I/O boards.
p pifacertc - Save/restore system clock with the PiFace real-time-clock board
p python-pifacecad - API for PiFace Control and Display boards (Python 2)
p python-pifacecad-doc - API for PiFace Control and Display boards (common documentation)
p python-pifacecommon - Common functions for PiFace boards (Python 2)
p python-pifacecommon-doc - Common functions for PiFace boards (common documentation)
p python-pifacedigitalio - API for PiFace Digital I/O boards (Python 2)
p python-pifacedigitalio-doc - API for PiFace Digital I/O boards (common documentation)
p python-pifacerelayplus - API for PiFace Relay+ boards (Python 2)
p python-pifacerelayplus-doc - API for PiFace Relay+ boards (common documentation)
p python3-pifacecad - API for PiFace Control and Display boards (Python 3)
p python3-pifacecommon - Common functions for PiFace boards (Python 3)
p python3-pifacedigitalio - API for PiFace Digital I/O boards (Python 3)
p python3-pifacerelayplus - API for PiFace Relay+ boards (Python 3)

Also some packages related to python and lirc from the raspi repo are only available in Stretch:

p python-lirc - LIRC client API (Python 2)
p python-lirc-dbgsym - Debug symbols for python-lirc
p python-pylirc - Python bindings for Linux Infra-red Remote Control (LIRC) support
p python3-lirc - LIRC client API (Python 3)
p python3-lirc-dbgsym

Robert

XECDesign commented 4 years ago

piface no longer provide us with these packages

leprovokateur commented 4 years ago

I made some tests and it seems that python-lirc is the culprit. There is a dependency on python < 3.6. Besides that, there is a newer version available. A build of that on buster would hopefully fix that.

leprovokateur commented 4 years ago

Would you please provide an updated and built against buster's python version of python-lirc?

XECDesign commented 4 years ago

I believe their recommendation is to install their packages via pip.

I'd volunteer to do the debian packaging if I didn't have enough work to keep me busy as is.