On Wed, Jul 22, 2020 at 4:30 AM Dmitry Shachnev <[email protected]> wrote:
> Source: git-cola > Version: 3.7-1 > Usertags: sip5 > > Dear Maintainer, > > You are receiving this bug because your package seems to be using PyQt5 > and has Python files with "import sip" lines. > > With the latest version of PyQt5 in experimental, the private sip module > used by PyQt5 is called "PyQt5.sip", not just "sip". I am going to upload > this version to unstable around end of August. > > You may need to update your imports to do something like this: > > try: > from PyQt5 import sip > except ModuleNotFoundError: > import sip > > Alternatively, you may import sip after importing PyQt5. So the following > will work too: > > from PyQt5 import QtCore > import sip > Hi Dmitriy git-cola uses the qtpy module: https://github.com/spyder-ide/qtpy This module abstracts over various Python+Qt backends -- PyQt4, PyQt5, PySide, and PySide2 are all supported. PyQt5 is our recommended backend. The sip issue is already handled by this module -- the "import sip" code path is only ever activated in the PyQt4 code paths. Modern systems will never hit that code. The PyQt5 code paths are all sip-free. Thank you for your work on debian. cheers, -- David
