Solution
Please Install the Updated Packages.
Insight
The python-sip package in Mandriva Linux 2008.0 release contained a packaging bug, making it fail to obsolete old package names. That would lead to an upgrade failure, and python-devel would not install due to unsatisfied dependencies.
This update fixes that issue.
Affected
python-sip on Mandriva Linux 2008.0,
Mandriva Linux 2008.0/X86_64