python3-webview version reported incorrectly

[Wade Cline]

In Ubuntu 24.04 (pre-release), the 'pywebview' module is incorrectly reporting its module version as '0.0.0' in Python. This can cause issues in programs which change their behavior based on which version of the module is installed (notably, the current behavior breaks email-oauth2-proxy (https://github.com/simonrob/email-oauth2-proxy/blob/6ef9d4f61799affe145e3331d72f1cb6026d1432/emailproxy.py#L2837)).

The following Python3 code can be used in order to see the reported module version:

import pkg_resources
for s in pkg_resources.working_set:
    print(str(s))

On Ubuntu 24.04 the module version is incorrectly reported as '0.0.0' (expected: '5.0.5'); on Ubuntu 23.10 the module version is correctly reported as '3.3.5'.

"Also need" info:
1)
$ lsb_release -rd
No LSB modules are available.
Description: Ubuntu 24.04 LTS
Release: 24.04

2)
$ apt-cache policy python3-webview
python3-webview:
  Installed: 5.0.5+dfsg-1
  Candidate: 5.0.5+dfsg-1
  Version table:
 *** 5.0.5+dfsg-1 500
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu noble/universe amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

3) Expected module version of '5.0.5'

4) Got module version of '0.0.0'

EDIT: Fixed URL.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Phillip Boushy (pboushy)]

A new version of the package appears to be published to proposed:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/python-pywebview/5.0.5+dfsg-2

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package python-pywebview - 5.0.5+dfsg-2

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python-pywebview (5.0.5+dfsg-2) unstable; urgency=medium

  * Team upload.
  * d/control: build-dep on setuptools-scm to fix wrong "0.0.0" version.
    (LP: #2063176)
  * Mark Debian-specific patches as not needing forwarding upstream.
  * Build-Depends: s/dh-python/dh-sequence-python3/ (routine-update)

 -- Michael R. Crusoe <email address hidden> Fri, 26 Apr 2024 18:50:20 +0200