On Mon, Dec 05, 2016 at 10:12:57AM +0100, Hartmut Goebel wrote:
> This allows passing different options for 5.5 than for the main version
> (which is currently 5.6).
> 
> * gnu/packages.qt.scm (python-pyqt-5.5, python2-pyqt-5.5)[arguments]: Copy
> from (python-pyqt)[arguments].
> ---
>  gnu/packages/qt.scm | 30 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 30 insertions(+)
> 
> 

Currently the only package that relies on python-pyqt-5.5 and
python2-pyqt-5.5 is calibre. I would consider upgrading calibre and
seeing if it can be built with pyqt-5.6 or pyqt-5.7 and then just
removing python[2]-pyqt-5.5

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