Comment 3 for bug 57519

There's a huge winding stack of dependencies to get PyQt4 working in Dapper, and it's just not really worth it for the average user. No, I'm not saying that it's not worth it because I'm lazy and don't feel like doing it -- that's not the issue at hand.

The point is, backporting pyqt puts a large burden on the Backports team to continue maintaining PyQt4 on Dapper along with its related packages, and sooner or later Edgy sources will no longer compile according to Backports policies, and then we've hit a brick wall.

If you want to develop on PyQt4, I'd expect you to be able to install it on your system in some fashion. (Else, maybe look for an easier to maintain language?). Maybe not as a deb package, but at least manual installation techniques.

For these reasons, I am currently going to reject this request.