Comment # 4 on bug 1044910 from Fabian Vogt

(In reply to Benjamin Greiner from comment #3)
> Is this still an issue?
> 
> I am in the process of migrating all the PyQt5 packages to SIP5
> 
> https://build.opensuse.org/project/show/home:bnavigator:sip5
> 
> @Fabian, I am confused by your statement. If the SIP files are really only
> needed by the lib itself, then why would there be a need to package them at
> all?

AFAIK the .sip files are just input to the sip compiler, which spits out .cpp
files and some others. So it shouldn't be of much use during application
runtime. They might be needed when building something which is based on other
Python bindings though, I don't really know.

> As far as I can tell, qgis depends on the sip files provided by qscintilla.

Runtime or buildtime?