[Python-modules-team] Bug#831860: python{, 3}-sip shouldn't provide more than one sip api

[Scott Kitterman]

On Thu, 18 May 2017 18:56:39 +0300 Adrian Bunk <bunk at debian.org> wrote:
> Control: reassign -1 src:sip4 4.18.1+dfsg-1
> Control: retitle -1 python{,3}-sip shouldn't provide more than one sip api
> Control: affects -1 python-sip python3-sip
> 
> On Thu, Feb 16, 2017 at 02:36:19PM +0100, di dit wrote:
> > Rebuilding veusz fixes this bug.
> >...
...
> 
> After a rebuild python-qt4 now uses sip-api-11.3, but veusz-helpers 
> still uses sip-api-11.1
> 
> To enforce that this problem can't happen again or during upgrades, 
> python-sip and python3-sip shouldn't provide more than one sip api.
> 
> This bug is to track that this gets fixed in python{,3}-sip for stretch.
> 
> I'll also submit a binNMU request to get veusz and the other affected 
> package in stretch rebuilt with sip-api-11.3

Providing more than one is fine.  It appears that there was an 
undetected/unintended ABI break between 11.1 and 11.2, so 11.0 and 11.1 should 
be dropped.

Scott K