I experienced a version conflict concerning sip and I'm not entirely sure what package I should be filing against.

I installed Eric earlier and was unable to launch it. The error reported was such:


Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/eric4/eric4.py", line 60, in <module>
from KdeQt.KQApplication import KQApplication
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/eric4/KdeQt/__init__.py", line 20, in <module>
import Preferences
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/eric4/Preferences/__init__.py", line 25, in <module>
from PyQt4 import Qsci
RuntimeError: the sip module implements API v7.0 but the PyQt4.Qsci module requires API v7.1


I Had version 4.10.0-1 of the sip package installed and nnly after upgrading sip to 4.10.1-1 did eric successfully launch. Examining the error, python-qscintilla was the package complaining about the version of sip. sip is not marked as a dependency of it however python-qscintilla does depend on pyqt which has sip marked as a dependency.

From what I can gather python-qscintilla cares about what version of sip is installed but pyqt does not, so my deduction would lead me to believe that python-qscintilla should mark sip as a dependency and specify a required version.

Steps to reproduce:

Have a version of sip installed which is older then 4.10.1-1 then launch eric.