Rapid-photo-downloader not working with pyqt5

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I am using an up-to-date Manjaro (KDE) installation. Using rapid-photo-downloader (0.9.28-1) it should download thumbnails when connected to SD-cards or other media but it doesn’t.

The developer of rapid-photo-downloader says the problem a buggy version of pyqt5. The newest version of pyqt5 is already corrected and rapid-photo-downloader works with it as expected.

The update of pyqt5 to pyqt 5.15.6-7.1 yesterday has still the wrong behavior.
You find the communication with the developer here: “SystemError: PY_SSIZE_T_CLEAN macro must be defined for ‘#’ formats on Python 3.10”

I didn’t find a place to file a bug against the package. I hope it’s the right place here.
Thank you!

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Then you just have to wait until the new version gets into stable branch.

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There seems to be some confusion. PyQt 5.15.6 was released October 29 last year, with the fix for the problem PY_SSIZE_T_CLEAN macro must be defined for '#' formats.

For some reason the Manjaro PyQt5 package does not appear to contain this fix, despite its version number being 5.15.6.

I’m the developer of Rapid Photo Downloader. As far as I can tell this problem is unique to Manjaro’s PyQT5 5.15.6 package. If a proper bug request can be filed against the package somewhere please let us know.

I would provide links to various release announcements but Discourse is blocking me from including them because I just signed up here.

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Seems the x64 is maintaining a pyqt5 package.

So the bug report should probably go to it’s issue page:

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@damonlynch Thank you for your clarification! I gonna mention this at Github

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@marwell I just created an issue for it.

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@damonlynch You are right. The PKGBUILD for python-pyqt5 used by manjaro has a patch for some reason which removes py_ssize_t_clean=True parameter. @Yochanan might know why:

-%Module(name=PyQt5.QtCore, call_super_init=True, default_VirtualErrorHandler=PyQt5, keyword_arguments="Optional", use_limited_api=True, py_ssize_t_clean=True)
+%Module(name=PyQt5.QtCore, call_super_init=True, default_VirtualErrorHandler=PyQt5, keyword_arguments="Optional", use_limited_api=True)

Original used by Arch:

Manjaro:

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The patch was added due to issues with building some packages. See syntax error with pyqt5 5.15.6 + sip4

Arch initially added the patch, then gave up on it.

We already have an open issue regarding it

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Hi,

I see this issue is closed now.

Is there something to do for getting back the thumbnail, or need to wait a bit for the modification comes to the stable branch ?

Thanks

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Try downgrading to 5.15.6-7