Bug#713893: python-qgis: Couldn't load PyQGIS

[Scott Kitterman]

On Tuesday, June 25, 2013 05:47:52 PM Francesco P. Lovergine wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 23, 2013 at 06:44:40PM +0200, Pitamila wrote:
> > Traceback (most recent call last):
> >   File "", line 1, in
> > 
> > RuntimeError: the sip module implements API v10.0 but the qgis.core module
> > requires API v8.1
> As explained, now qgis requires an update to use the current qtsip lib. I
> would prefer to update possibly to 1.8 for a future backport.

qgis should use dh_sip to generate dependencies on the correct SIP API virtual 
packages.  That's how we track sip4 transitions.  If this used dh_sip, it'd 
have been noticed and included in the transition.