Thanks, I can certainly submit a bug (but I am not trying to build a phone app, just trying to get autokey working), but the rest is way beyond me.
As an alternative I tried installing the latest kde. Autokey works, but unfortunately kmail does not, see https://forums.opensuse.org/showthread.php/531564-Kmail-does-not-display-messages-with-latest-kde?p=2868928#post2868928
Please correct me if I am wrong, but the mismatch seems to be between the python-sip and python-kde4 packages, is this something that might be fixed soon or am I basically out of luck