[Qgis-developer] python-qgis-common on (K)Ubuntu 14.04 not installable

[Albin Blaschka]

Hello!

Both rjhale at northrivergeographic.com an myself [1,2] have already posted 
to the QGIS User list about problems with QGIS 2.2 following an update 
to (K)Ubuntu 14.04 because of a missing or wrong dependency concerning 
the Python SIP-API: Kubuntu 14.04 has sip-api-11.0, but 
python-qgis-common and python-qgis depend on sip-api-10.1, which is not 
available on (K)Ubuntu 14.04.

What can be done about this problem? Is it a "simple" packaging problem 
or are more changes necessary? Unfortunately, my knowledge of python is 
practically not existent...

Sorry for cross-posting it now here to the developer list, but maybe 
this is the better place than the user's list!

Thank you very much for your efforts,
kind regards from Austria,
Albin

[1]
http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/qgis-user/2014-April/027175.html
[2]
http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/qgis-user/2014-April/027183.html

And there is also a similar question on gis.stackexchange.com:

http://gis.stackexchange.com/questions/93498/unable-to-get-python-qgis-common-on-kubuntu-14-04



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