diff --git a/macros.pyqt b/macros.pyqt
index f2f514e..7d6c423 100644
--- a/macros.pyqt
+++ b/macros.pyqt
@@ -25,7 +25,6 @@ export CFLAGS="%{optflags}" \
     sip-build-%{$python_bin_suffix} \\\
         --verbose  \\\
         --api-dir %{_libqt5_datadir}/qsci/api/python_%{$python_bin_suffix}/ \\\
-        --debug \\\
         --no-make \\\
         --qmake=%{_libqt5_qmake} \\\
         --qmake-setting "QMAKE_CFLAGS += ${CFLAGS} ${CPPFLAGS}" \\\
diff --git a/python-pyqt-rpm-macros.changes b/python-pyqt-rpm-macros.changes
index 76e9e7c..fa521e7 100644
--- a/python-pyqt-rpm-macros.changes
+++ b/python-pyqt-rpm-macros.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Wed Dec  2 16:55:14 UTC 2020 - Benjamin Greiner <code@bnavigator.de>
+
+- remove --debug flag for sip v5 builds. Mitigates boo#1179214
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Tue Nov 24 11:03:47 UTC 2020 - Benjamin Greiner <code@bnavigator.de>