Mailman 3 May 2023 - Bit-dev

Remove English variants from translations
by c.buhtz＠posteo.jp 26 Aug '23

26 Aug '23

Hello, I hope some native speakers are around. BIT does offer translation for "Canada" and "United Kingdom" English. I'm not a pro here but would assume with our GUI in mind that there is no difference between "English" (US) and that two variants. When I look into the translation files (temporary link: [1]) there really is no difference. But their translation is not 100% complete; UK is at 64% and Canada at 25%. I would like to remove them because there is no need for a translation from "English" into one of that two variants. What do you think? Kind Christian [1] -- <https://translate.codeberg.org/projects/backintime/common/>

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Qt / qt.qpa.plugin: What is xcb for?
by c.buhtz＠posteo.jp 23 May '23

23 May '23

Hello, I'm testing the migration from PyQt5 to PyQt6. Starting "backintime-qt" I got this error message in the terminal. qt.qpa.plugin: Could not load the Qt platform plugin "xcb" in "" even though it was found. Searching the BIT code via "git grep" it seems this message is not generated by BIT but by an underlying PyQt6/Qt6 component. First question is what this plugin is for and if we need it? Maybe we can switch that off somehow? Looking into Debians package description [1] it is something with "Deepin Desktop Environment" (I don't use). So I'm confused why and how this is involved with Back In Time. I couldn't find a trail in the BIT code about it. Maybe someone here can light me up? I found some discussions about that error message but they are in the context of building Qt6 from scratch. [2] [3] Kind Christian [1] -- <https://packages.debian.org/unstable/qt5dxcb-plugin> [2] -- <https://stackoverflow.com/q/68036484/4865723> [3] -- <https://forum.qt.io/topic/127696/qt-qpa-plugin-could-not-load-the-qt-platfo…>

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Docker: Python 3.6, git and Bash
by c.buhtz＠posteo.jp 13 May '23

13 May '23

Hello Folks, is someone able to deal with Docker? I'm not experienced here but now how to install it on Debian and how to run a Python REPL with a specific Python version. I install on Debian 11 sudo apt install docker docker.io Then I run the container sudo docker run -it --rm python:3.6 Now where I need help. I don't want to run the REPL. I want to begin in a bash shell because I need to do "git clone" (or mounting something from host?) and need to run unittest scripts. Has anyone a tip for me? I assume my problems root in the fact that I lack of deeper understanding of Docker concept and its UI. Kind Christian

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Do we have scheduled date for the next BiT release?
by BiT dev 04 May '23

04 May '23

some bug fixes are e.g. required for ARCH/AUR installations... BTW: I have still not completed my sys tray icon fixes (wayland is a beast and I setting up all test OS envs is much work) but I could finish this one release later (and after my upcoming vacations :-)

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