> As the one that has to deal with this every release, this is kind of infuriating... Ubuntu, how can we we stop this from happening?
> The python-sip bump occurred Tue, 18 Mar 2014 10:40:51 +0400, one month before release - and no one rebuilt depending packages?
I have rebuilt all packages that depend on sip-api-* or sip-py3api-*. It looks like your package should use dh_sip (and/or dh_sip3 for python3 version) so that correct dependencies are generated (and only after that it will take part in transitions).
> As the one that has to deal with this every release, this is kind of infuriating... Ubuntu, how can we we stop this from happening?
> The python-sip bump occurred Tue, 18 Mar 2014 10:40:51 +0400, one month before release - and no one rebuilt depending packages?
I have rebuilt all packages that depend on sip-api-* or sip-py3api-*. It looks like your package should use dh_sip (and/or dh_sip3 for python3 version) so that correct dependencies are generated (and only after that it will take part in transitions).