Thanks so much Paul! This is really helpful!
> On Feb 15, 2019, at 9:20 AM, Paul Garlick
> <pgarl...@tourbillion-technology.com> wrote:
>
> Hi John,
>
>> I have been getting a little stuck building the pyside2 dependencies
>
> There has been an effort to package pyside2 for Debian. This has been
> completed in the last six months.
>
> A good place to look for information is
> https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/pyside2
>
> You can browse the source code and follow the links to the 'debian'
> directory, which contains the files that govern the packaging process.
> In general for Debian packages, the 'rules' file is worth reading and
> the 'patches' directory has the changes to the upstream code.
>
> One element that could be important in Guix is an update of patchelf to
> a recent commit (see 'update-patchelf.patch' in the patches directory).
>
> Best regards,
>
> Paul.
>