On Mon, 2018-03-26 at 15:33 -0500, Rex Dieter wrote:
> Sérgio Basto wrote:
>
> > On Tue, 2018-03-06 at 16:15 -0600, Rex Dieter wrote:
> > > I'd be ok with an epel7-only python3-sip
> > >
> > > Since it is a new package (not a branch of an existing one), then
> > > it
> > > would require a new package review.
> > >
> > > It would be a bit of shame though, having to fork things like
> > > that.
> >
> > I tried this solution (epel7-only python3-sip) but
> > BUILDSTDERR: Error: This version of PyQt5 requires sip 4.19.4 or
> > later.
> > when el7 have sip-devel x86_64 4.14.6-4.el7 base
> >
> > if we do package sip-qt5 we must override
> > /usr/lib64/python2.7/site-
> > packages/sip.so
> > it is possible sip-qt5 provides and obsolete sip (4.14.6-4.el7) ?
>
> Not possible (by policy). It should be able to work without doing
> that, but
> it may require patching.
I don't see how. In python2, how "import sip" will work ? "import sip-qt5 as sip" ?
Best regards
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Sérgio M. B.