On Fri, 10 Jan 2020 00:02:12 -0800 Nye Liu <n...@nyet.org> wrote: > this bug is now more than a year old. > > Please update python3-pip and python-pip packages to >19.1
The same problem still exists with 20.2 in unstable. It appears that the fundamental problem is that pip uses a modified pkg_resources copy (despite their own rules to not modify vendored code) and then blames downstreams for unbundling (which they do support). Scott K