diff --git a/pkgs/applications/gis/qgis/unwrapped.nix b/pkgs/applications/gis/qgis/unwrapped.nix
index a8dd7787a52..3669cf0771b 100644
--- a/pkgs/applications/gis/qgis/unwrapped.nix
+++ b/pkgs/applications/gis/qgis/unwrapped.nix
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ let
     urllib3
     pygments
     pyqt5
-    sip
+    sip_4
     owslib
     six
   ];
diff --git a/pkgs/applications/graphics/krita/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/graphics/krita/default.nix
index 282db23f475..15d8096e549 100644
--- a/pkgs/applications/graphics/krita/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/applications/graphics/krita/default.nix
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ mkDerivation rec {
     sha256 = "0rwghzci2wn2jmisvnzs23yxc2z3d4dcx2qbbhcvjyi3q8ij61nl";
   };
 
-  nativeBuildInputs = [ cmake extra-cmake-modules python3Packages.sip makeWrapper ];
+  nativeBuildInputs = [ cmake extra-cmake-modules python3Packages.sip_4 makeWrapper ];
 
   buildInputs = [
     karchive kconfig kwidgetsaddons kcompletion kcoreaddons kguiaddons
diff --git a/pkgs/applications/misc/calibre/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/misc/calibre/default.nix
index aff203cce61..f5c4acb1f99 100644
--- a/pkgs/applications/misc/calibre/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/applications/misc/calibre/default.nix
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ mkDerivation rec {
   prePatch = ''
     sed -i "s/\[tool.sip.project\]/[tool.sip.project]\nsip-include-dirs = [\"${escaped_pyqt5_dir}\/share\/sip\/PyQt5\"]/g" \
       setup/build.py
-    sed -i "s/\[tool.sip.bindings.pictureflow\]/[tool.sip.bindings.pictureflow]\ntags = [\"${python3Packages.sip_5.platform_tag}\"]/g" \
+    sed -i "s/\[tool.sip.bindings.pictureflow\]/[tool.sip.bindings.pictureflow]\ntags = [\"${python3Packages.sip.platform_tag}\"]/g" \
       setup/build.py
 
     # Remove unneeded files and libs
@@ -95,7 +95,7 @@ mkDerivation rec {
       pyqtwebengine
       python
       regex
-      sip_5
+      sip
       zeroconf
       # the following are distributed with calibre, but we use upstream instead
       odfpy
diff --git a/pkgs/applications/misc/cura/lulzbot/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/misc/cura/lulzbot/default.nix
index 229966561c6..360ef47ecf1 100644
--- a/pkgs/applications/misc/cura/lulzbot/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/applications/misc/cura/lulzbot/default.nix
@@ -10,10 +10,10 @@ let
   };
 
   libarcusLulzbot = callPackage ./libarcus.nix {
-    inherit (python3.pkgs) buildPythonPackage sip pythonOlder;
+    inherit (python3.pkgs) buildPythonPackage sip_4 pythonOlder;
   };
   libsavitarLulzbot = callPackage ./libsavitar.nix {
-    inherit (python3.pkgs) buildPythonPackage sip pythonOlder;
+    inherit (python3.pkgs) buildPythonPackage sip_4 pythonOlder;
   };
 
   inherit (python3.pkgs) buildPythonPackage pyqt5 numpy scipy shapely pythonOlder;
diff --git a/pkgs/applications/misc/cura/lulzbot/libarcus.nix b/pkgs/applications/misc/cura/lulzbot/libarcus.nix
index 7b1dbf4d85e..15e221a8f74 100644
--- a/pkgs/applications/misc/cura/lulzbot/libarcus.nix
+++ b/pkgs/applications/misc/cura/lulzbot/libarcus.nix
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-{ lib, buildPythonPackage, fetchgit, fetchurl, cmake, sip, protobuf, pythonOlder }:
+{ lib, buildPythonPackage, fetchgit, fetchurl, cmake, sip_4, protobuf, pythonOlder }:
 
 buildPythonPackage {
   pname = "libarcus";
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ buildPythonPackage {
 
   disabled = pythonOlder "3.4.0";
 
-  propagatedBuildInputs = [ sip ];
+  propagatedBuildInputs = [ sip_4 ];
   nativeBuildInputs = [ cmake ];
   buildInputs = [ protobuf ];
 
diff --git a/pkgs/applications/misc/cura/lulzbot/libsavitar.nix b/pkgs/applications/misc/cura/lulzbot/libsavitar.nix
index f12059e6317..dd84173ffce 100644
--- a/pkgs/applications/misc/cura/lulzbot/libsavitar.nix
+++ b/pkgs/applications/misc/cura/lulzbot/libsavitar.nix
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-{ lib, buildPythonPackage, pythonOlder, fetchgit, cmake, sip }:
+{ lib, buildPythonPackage, pythonOlder, fetchgit, cmake, sip_4 }:
 
 buildPythonPackage {
   pname = "libsavitar-lulzbot";
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ buildPythonPackage {
 
   nativeBuildInputs = [ cmake ];
 
-  propagatedBuildInputs = [ sip ];
+  propagatedBuildInputs = [ sip_4 ];
 
   disabled = pythonOlder "3.4.0";
 
diff --git a/pkgs/applications/misc/openlp/lib.nix b/pkgs/applications/misc/openlp/lib.nix
index 6f0634b5c93..c044e76c597 100644
--- a/pkgs/applications/misc/openlp/lib.nix
+++ b/pkgs/applications/misc/openlp/lib.nix
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 # python deps
 , python, buildPythonPackage
 , alembic, beautifulsoup4, chardet, lxml, Mako, pyenchant
-, pyqt5_with_qtwebkit, pyxdg, sip, sqlalchemy, sqlalchemy_migrate
+, pyqt5_with_qtwebkit, pyxdg, sip_4, sqlalchemy, sqlalchemy_migrate
 }:
 
 buildPythonPackage rec {
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ buildPythonPackage rec {
     pyenchant
     pyqt5_with_qtwebkit
     pyxdg
-    sip
+    sip_4
     sqlalchemy
     sqlalchemy_migrate
   ];
diff --git a/pkgs/applications/networking/gns3/gui.nix b/pkgs/applications/networking/gns3/gui.nix
index f206c645ae2..5f5594c0537 100644
--- a/pkgs/applications/networking/gns3/gui.nix
+++ b/pkgs/applications/networking/gns3/gui.nix
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ in python.pkgs.buildPythonPackage rec {
   propagatedBuildInputs = with python.pkgs; [
     sentry-sdk psutil jsonschema # tox for check
     # Runtime dependencies
-    sip (pyqt5.override { withWebSockets = true; }) distro setuptools
+    sip_4 (pyqt5.override { withWebSockets = true; }) distro setuptools
   ];
 
   doCheck = false; # Failing
diff --git a/pkgs/applications/science/machine-learning/labelimg/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/science/machine-learning/labelimg/default.nix
index 50d0aa6f9d1..620ccfb084e 100644
--- a/pkgs/applications/science/machine-learning/labelimg/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/applications/science/machine-learning/labelimg/default.nix
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@
     propagatedBuildInputs = with python3Packages; [
       pyqt5
       lxml
-      sip
+      sip_4
     ];
     preBuild = ''
       make qt5py3
diff --git a/pkgs/applications/version-management/git-and-tools/git-cola/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/version-management/git-and-tools/git-cola/default.nix
index 37c10bf2f98..707e0855d15 100644
--- a/pkgs/applications/version-management/git-and-tools/git-cola/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/applications/version-management/git-and-tools/git-cola/default.nix
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 { lib, fetchFromGitHub, python3Packages, gettext, git, qt5 }:
 
 let
-  inherit (python3Packages) buildPythonApplication pyqt5 sip pyinotify;
+  inherit (python3Packages) buildPythonApplication pyqt5 sip_4 pyinotify;
 
 in buildPythonApplication rec {
   pname = "git-cola";
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ in buildPythonApplication rec {
   };
 
   buildInputs = [ git gettext ];
-  propagatedBuildInputs = [ pyqt5 sip pyinotify ];
+  propagatedBuildInputs = [ pyqt5 sip_4 pyinotify ];
   nativeBuildInputs = [ qt5.wrapQtAppsHook ];
 
   doCheck = false;
diff --git a/pkgs/applications/video/openshot-qt/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/video/openshot-qt/default.nix
index 5951f4665e4..c25e53b657b 100644
--- a/pkgs/applications/video/openshot-qt/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/applications/video/openshot-qt/default.nix
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ mkDerivationWith python3Packages.buildPythonApplication rec {
 
   buildInputs = [ gtk3 ];
 
-  propagatedBuildInputs = with python3Packages; [ libopenshot pyqt5_with_qtwebkit requests sip httplib2 pyzmq ];
+  propagatedBuildInputs = with python3Packages; [ libopenshot pyqt5_with_qtwebkit requests sip_4 httplib2 pyzmq ];
 
   dontWrapGApps = true;
   dontWrapQtApps = true;
diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/enaml/default.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/enaml/default.nix
index 1102443884f..8896c5c706a 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/python-modules/enaml/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/python-modules/enaml/default.nix
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 , ply
 , kiwisolver
 , qtpy
-, sip
+, sip_4
 , cppy
 , bytecode
 }:
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ buildPythonPackage rec {
     ply
     kiwisolver
     qtpy
-    sip
+    sip_4
     cppy
     bytecode
   ];
diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/libarcus/default.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/libarcus/default.nix
index edea85876a8..a48d70c544c 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/python-modules/libarcus/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/python-modules/libarcus/default.nix
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 { lib, buildPythonPackage, python, fetchFromGitHub
-, cmake, sip, protobuf, pythonOlder }:
+, cmake, sip_4, protobuf, pythonOlder }:
 
 buildPythonPackage rec {
   pname = "libarcus";
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ buildPythonPackage rec {
 
   disabled = pythonOlder "3.4.0";
 
-  propagatedBuildInputs = [ sip ];
+  propagatedBuildInputs = [ sip_4 ];
   nativeBuildInputs = [ cmake ];
   buildInputs = [ protobuf ];
 
diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/libsavitar/default.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/libsavitar/default.nix
index f6aa1b378f5..7ecd09160ff 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/python-modules/libsavitar/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/python-modules/libsavitar/default.nix
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-{ lib, buildPythonPackage, python, pythonOlder, fetchFromGitHub, cmake, sip }:
+{ lib, buildPythonPackage, python, pythonOlder, fetchFromGitHub, cmake, sip_4 }:
 
 buildPythonPackage rec {
   pname = "libsavitar";
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ buildPythonPackage rec {
 
   nativeBuildInputs = [ cmake ];
 
-  propagatedBuildInputs = [ sip ];
+  propagatedBuildInputs = [ sip_4 ];
 
   disabled = pythonOlder "3.4.0";
 
diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/poppler-qt5/default.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/poppler-qt5/default.nix
index 94d86f7b713..4a9fdfa4262 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/python-modules/poppler-qt5/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/python-modules/poppler-qt5/default.nix
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 , isPy3k
 , fetchPypi
 , pythonPackages
-, sip_5
+, sip
 , qtbase
 , qmake
 , pyqt5
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ buildPythonPackage rec {
   ];
 
   buildInputs = [ qtbase.dev poppler pyqt-builder ];
-  nativeBuildInputs = [ pkg-config qmake sip_5 ];
+  nativeBuildInputs = [ pkg-config qmake sip ];
   propagatedBuildInputs = [ pyqt5.dev ];
 
   format = "pyproject";
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ buildPythonPackage rec {
 
     [tool.sip.bindings.Poppler-Qt5]
     include-dirs = ["${poppler.dev}/include/poppler"]
-    tags = ["${sip_5.platform_tag}"]
+    tags = ["${sip.platform_tag}"]
     EOF
   '';
 
diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/pykdl/default.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/pykdl/default.nix
index 674a43f5f3e..9a0431b2b85 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/python-modules/pykdl/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/python-modules/pykdl/default.nix
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-{ lib, stdenv, toPythonModule, fetchpatch, cmake, orocos-kdl, python, sip }:
+{ lib, stdenv, toPythonModule, fetchpatch, cmake, orocos-kdl, python, sip_4 }:
 
 toPythonModule (stdenv.mkDerivation {
   pname = "pykdl";
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ toPythonModule (stdenv.mkDerivation {
 
   nativeBuildInputs = [ cmake ];
   buildInputs = [ orocos-kdl ];
-  propagatedBuildInputs = [ python sip ];
+  propagatedBuildInputs = [ python sip_4 ];
 
   meta = with lib; {
     description = "Kinematics and Dynamics Library (Python bindings)";
diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/pynest2d/default.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/pynest2d/default.nix
index 7ca72293382..f3b5b9ba685 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/python-modules/pynest2d/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/python-modules/pynest2d/default.nix
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 { lib, buildPythonPackage, fetchFromGitHub, python3, cmake
-, pythonOlder, libnest2d, sip, clipper }:
+, pythonOlder, libnest2d, sip_4, clipper }:
 
 buildPythonPackage rec {
   version = "4.8.0";
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ buildPythonPackage rec {
     sha256 = "18dn92vgr4gvf9scfh93yg9bwrhdjvq62di08rpi7pqjrrvq2nvp";
   };
 
-  propagatedBuildInputs = [ libnest2d sip clipper ];
+  propagatedBuildInputs = [ libnest2d sip_4 clipper ];
   nativeBuildInputs = [ cmake ];
 
   CLIPPER_PATH = "${clipper.out}";
diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/pyqt-builder/default.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/pyqt-builder/default.nix
index d7f15d966b3..d371fd7bcee 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/python-modules/pyqt-builder/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/python-modules/pyqt-builder/default.nix
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-{ lib, fetchPypi, buildPythonPackage, packaging, sip_5 }:
+{ lib, fetchPypi, buildPythonPackage, packaging, sip }:
 
 buildPythonPackage rec {
   pname = "pyqt-builder";
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ buildPythonPackage rec {
     sha256 = "0g51yak53zzjs4gpq65i01cmpz7w8cjny9wfyxlgr2vi0wag107v";
   };
 
-  propagatedBuildInputs = [ packaging sip_5 ];
+  propagatedBuildInputs = [ packaging sip ];
 
   pythonImportsCheck = [ "pyqtbuild" ];
 
diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/pyqt/4.x.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/pyqt/4.x.nix
index 3427438b8a2..27616d69d3e 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/python-modules/pyqt/4.x.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/python-modules/pyqt/4.x.nix
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-{ lib, stdenv, fetchurl, buildPythonPackage, python, dbus-python, sip, qt4, pkg-config, lndir, dbus, makeWrapper }:
+{ lib, stdenv, fetchurl, buildPythonPackage, python, dbus-python, sip_4, qt4, pkg-config, lndir, dbus, makeWrapper }:
 
 buildPythonPackage rec {
   pname = "PyQt-x11-gpl";
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ buildPythonPackage rec {
   nativeBuildInputs = [ pkg-config lndir makeWrapper qt4 ];
   buildInputs = [ qt4 dbus ];
 
-  propagatedBuildInputs = [ sip ];
+  propagatedBuildInputs = [ sip_4 ];
 
   postInstall = ''
     for i in $out/bin/*; do
diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/pyqt/5.x.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/pyqt/5.x.nix
index 6e4b4d37f28..2671b27a630 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/python-modules/pyqt/5.x.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/python-modules/pyqt/5.x.nix
@@ -16,9 +16,9 @@ let
   inherit (pythonPackages) buildPythonPackage python isPy3k dbus-python enum34;
 
   sip = if isPy3k then
-    pythonPackages.sip_5
+    pythonPackages.sip
   else
-    (pythonPackages.sip.override { sip-module = "PyQt5.sip"; }).overridePythonAttrs(oldAttrs: {
+    (pythonPackages.sip_4.override { sip-module = "PyQt5.sip"; }).overridePythonAttrs(oldAttrs: {
       # If we install sip in another folder, then we need to create a __init__.py as well
       # if we want to be able to import it with Python 2.
       # Python 3 could rely on it being an implicit namespace package, however,
diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/qscintilla-qt5/default.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/qscintilla-qt5/default.nix
index dcbe213966f..05c12c1c62a 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/python-modules/qscintilla-qt5/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/python-modules/qscintilla-qt5/default.nix
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ buildPythonPackage {
   src = qscintilla.src;
   format = "other";
 
-  nativeBuildInputs = [ sip qtbase ];
+  nativeBuildInputs = [ sip_4 qtbase ];
   buildInputs = [ qscintilla ];
   propagatedBuildInputs = [ pyqt5 ];
 
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ buildPythonPackage {
       --qsci-libdir=${qscintilla}/lib \
       --pyqt-sipdir=${pyqt5}/share/sip/PyQt5 \
       --qsci-sipdir=$out/share/sip/PyQt5 \
-      --sip-incdir=${sip}/include
+      --sip-incdir=${sip_4}/include
   '';
 
   meta = with lib; {
diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/sip/4.x.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/sip/4.x.nix
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..5334d119634
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/python-modules/sip/4.x.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,44 @@
+{ lib, fetchurl, buildPythonPackage, python, isPyPy, sip-module ? "sip" }:
+
+buildPythonPackage rec {
+  pname = sip-module;
+  version = "4.19.25";
+  format = "other";
+
+  disabled = isPyPy;
+
+  src = fetchurl {
+    url = "https://www.riverbankcomputing.com/static/Downloads/sip/${version}/sip-${version}.tar.gz";
+    sha256 = "04a23cgsnx150xq86w1z44b6vr2zyazysy9mqax0fy346zlr77dk";
+  };
+
+  configurePhase = ''
+    ${python.executable} ./configure.py \
+      --sip-module ${sip-module} \
+      -d $out/${python.sitePackages} \
+      -b $out/bin -e $out/include
+  '';
+
+  enableParallelBuilding = true;
+
+  installCheckPhase = let
+    modules = [
+      sip-module
+      "sipconfig"
+    ];
+    imports = lib.concatMapStrings (module: "import ${module};") modules;
+  in ''
+    echo "Checking whether modules can be imported..."
+    PYTHONPATH=$out/${python.sitePackages}:$PYTHONPATH ${python.interpreter} -c "${imports}"
+  '';
+
+  doCheck = true;
+
+  meta = with lib; {
+    description = "Creates C++ bindings for Python modules";
+    homepage    = "http://www.riverbankcomputing.co.uk/";
+    license     = licenses.gpl2Plus;
+    maintainers = with maintainers; [ lovek323 sander ];
+    platforms   = platforms.all;
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/sip/5.x.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/sip/5.x.nix
deleted file mode 100644
index c15589b77bc..00000000000
--- a/pkgs/development/python-modules/sip/5.x.nix
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,40 +0,0 @@
-{ lib, stdenv, fetchPypi, buildPythonPackage, packaging, toml }:
-
-buildPythonPackage rec {
-  pname = "sip";
-  version = "5.5.0";
-
-  src = fetchPypi {
-    pname = "sip";
-    inherit version;
-    sha256 = "1idaivamp1jvbbai9yzv471c62xbqxhaawccvskaizihkd0lq0jx";
-  };
-
-  propagatedBuildInputs = [ packaging toml ];
-
-  # There aren't tests
-  doCheck = false;
-
-  pythonImportsCheck = [ "sipbuild" ];
-
-  # FIXME: Why isn't this detected automatically?
-  # Needs to be specified in pyproject.toml, e.g.:
-  # [tool.sip.bindings.MODULE]
-  # tags = [PLATFORM_TAG]
-  platform_tag =
-    if stdenv.targetPlatform.isLinux then
-      "WS_X11"
-    else if stdenv.targetPlatform.isDarwin then
-      "WS_MACX"
-    else if stdenv.targetPlatform.isWindows then
-      "WS_WIN"
-    else
-      throw "unsupported platform";
-
-  meta = with lib; {
-    description = "Creates C++ bindings for Python modules";
-    homepage    = "http://www.riverbankcomputing.co.uk/";
-    license     = licenses.gpl3Only;
-    maintainers = with maintainers; [ eduardosm ];
-  };
-}
diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/sip/default.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/sip/default.nix
index 0027c1c0ba5..c15589b77bc 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/python-modules/sip/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/python-modules/sip/default.nix
@@ -1,44 +1,40 @@
-{ lib, fetchurl, buildPythonPackage, python, isPyPy, sip-module ? "sip" }:
+{ lib, stdenv, fetchPypi, buildPythonPackage, packaging, toml }:
 
 buildPythonPackage rec {
-  pname = sip-module;
-  version = "4.19.24";
-  format = "other";
+  pname = "sip";
+  version = "5.5.0";
 
-  disabled = isPyPy;
-
-  src = fetchurl {
-    url = "https://www.riverbankcomputing.com/static/Downloads/sip/${version}/sip-${version}.tar.gz";
-    sha256 = "1ra15vb5i9gkg2vdvh16cq9x2mmzw1yi3xphxs8q34q1pf83gkgd";
+  src = fetchPypi {
+    pname = "sip";
+    inherit version;
+    sha256 = "1idaivamp1jvbbai9yzv471c62xbqxhaawccvskaizihkd0lq0jx";
   };
 
-  configurePhase = ''
-    ${python.executable} ./configure.py \
-      --sip-module ${sip-module} \
-      -d $out/${python.sitePackages} \
-      -b $out/bin -e $out/include
-  '';
+  propagatedBuildInputs = [ packaging toml ];
 
-  enableParallelBuilding = true;
+  # There aren't tests
+  doCheck = false;
 
-  installCheckPhase = let
-    modules = [
-      sip-module
-      "sipconfig"
-    ];
-    imports = lib.concatMapStrings (module: "import ${module};") modules;
-  in ''
-    echo "Checking whether modules can be imported..."
-    PYTHONPATH=$out/${python.sitePackages}:$PYTHONPATH ${python.interpreter} -c "${imports}"
-  '';
+  pythonImportsCheck = [ "sipbuild" ];
 
-  doCheck = true;
+  # FIXME: Why isn't this detected automatically?
+  # Needs to be specified in pyproject.toml, e.g.:
+  # [tool.sip.bindings.MODULE]
+  # tags = [PLATFORM_TAG]
+  platform_tag =
+    if stdenv.targetPlatform.isLinux then
+      "WS_X11"
+    else if stdenv.targetPlatform.isDarwin then
+      "WS_MACX"
+    else if stdenv.targetPlatform.isWindows then
+      "WS_WIN"
+    else
+      throw "unsupported platform";
 
   meta = with lib; {
     description = "Creates C++ bindings for Python modules";
     homepage    = "http://www.riverbankcomputing.co.uk/";
-    license     = licenses.gpl2Plus;
-    maintainers = with maintainers; [ lovek323 sander ];
-    platforms   = platforms.all;
+    license     = licenses.gpl3Only;
+    maintainers = with maintainers; [ eduardosm ];
   };
 }
diff --git a/pkgs/misc/drivers/hplip/3.18.5.nix b/pkgs/misc/drivers/hplip/3.18.5.nix
index c62161c96f8..3c2f8fa2a08 100644
--- a/pkgs/misc/drivers/hplip/3.18.5.nix
+++ b/pkgs/misc/drivers/hplip/3.18.5.nix
@@ -75,7 +75,7 @@ python2Packages.buildPythonApplication {
     pygobject2
     reportlab
     usbutils
-    sip
+    sip_4
   ] ++ lib.optionals withQt5 [
     pyqt5
   ];
diff --git a/pkgs/misc/drivers/hplip/default.nix b/pkgs/misc/drivers/hplip/default.nix
index 6a7eb35ae52..9fcdbd8c515 100644
--- a/pkgs/misc/drivers/hplip/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/misc/drivers/hplip/default.nix
@@ -79,7 +79,7 @@ python3Packages.buildPythonApplication {
     pygobject3
     reportlab
     usbutils
-    sip
+    sip_4
     dbus-python
   ] ++ lib.optionals withQt5 [
     pyqt5
diff --git a/pkgs/misc/frescobaldi/default.nix b/pkgs/misc/frescobaldi/default.nix
index 070babc0cbc..60fee5a6c86 100644
--- a/pkgs/misc/frescobaldi/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/misc/frescobaldi/default.nix
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ buildPythonApplication rec {
   };
 
   propagatedBuildInputs = with python3Packages; [
-    lilypond pygame python-ly sip
+    lilypond pygame python-ly sip_4
     pyqt5 poppler-qt5
     pyqtwebengine
   ];
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
index bc88020a7f3..41ea8d622fb 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
@@ -7556,9 +7556,9 @@ in {
 
   signify = callPackage ../development/python-modules/signify { };
 
-  sip = callPackage ../development/python-modules/sip { };
+  sip = callPackage ../development/python-modules/sip/default.nix { };
 
-  sip_5 = callPackage ../development/python-modules/sip/5.x.nix { };
+  sip_4 = callPackage ../development/python-modules/sip/4.x.nix { };
 
   six = callPackage ../development/python-modules/six { };