Bug#815864: python3-venv: unable to create a virtual environment

2016-02-29 Thread Florent Rougon
Simple workaround for this bug: 1) Create the venv with --without-pip. For instance: /usr/bin/python3.5 -m venv --without-pip 2) Download https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py as ~/tmp/get-pip.py. 3) Bootstrap pip "manually" in your venv: /bin/python ~/tmp/get-pip.py HTH

Bug#815864: python3-venv: unable to create a virtual environment

2016-02-25 Thread Florent Rougon
Some more info: Inserting a 'print(cmd)' at line 259 showed that the direct cause of the error message is the command: ['/home/flo/python-venv/testdir/bin/python3.5', '-Im', 'ensurepip', '--upgrade', '--default-pip'] exiting with a non-zero exit status. Running this command by hand after

Bug#815864: python3-venv: unable to create a virtual environment

2016-02-24 Thread Florent Rougon
Package: python3-venv Version: 3.5.1-2 Severity: serious Justification: renders the package unusable Hello, It seems current Python 3 packages in Debian unstable don't allow creating a virtual environment anymore with pyvenv and friends: ~/python-venv % /usr/bin/python3.5 -m venv testdir The