Package: python3-virtualenv Version: 20.0.21+ds-1 Severity: important Dear Maintainer,
trying to create a Python 3.7 virtualenv fails, while Python 3.8 works, as follows: $ python3 -m virtualenv --no-download --python /usr/bin/python3.8 bleh created virtual environment CPython3.8.3.final.0-64 in 231ms creator CPython3Posix(dest=/home/alex/bleh, clear=False, global=False) seeder FromAppData(download=False, pip=latest, setuptools=latest, wheel=latest, pkg_resources=latest, via=copy, app_data_dir=/home/alex/.local/share/virtualenv/seed-app-data/v1.0.1.debian) activators BashActivator,CShellActivator,FishActivator,PowerShellActivator,PythonActivator,XonshActivator $ python3 -m virtualenv --no-download --python /usr/bin/python3.7 bleh RuntimeError: failed to query /usr/bin/python3.7 with code 1 err: 'Traceback (most recent call last):\n File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/virtualenv/discovery/py_info.py", line 16, in <module>\n from distutils import dist\nImportError: cannot import name \'dist\' from \'distutils\' (/usr/lib/python3.7/distutils/__init__.py)\n' $ python3 --version Python 3.8.3 This also breaks, for example, tox. Thanks, Alexander -- System Information: Debian Release: bullseye/sid APT prefers unstable-debug APT policy: (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'unstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 5.6.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/12 CPU cores) Kernel taint flags: TAINT_PROPRIETARY_MODULE, TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US:en (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) LSM: AppArmor: enabled Versions of packages python3-virtualenv depends on: ii python-pip-whl 20.1.1-1 ii python3 3.8.2-3 ii python3-appdirs 1.4.4-1 ii python3-distlib 0.3.0-1 ii python3-distutils 3.8.3-2 ii python3-filelock 3.0.12-2 ii python3-importlib-metadata 1.6.0-1 ii python3-pip 20.1.1-1 ii python3-pkg-resources 46.1.3-1 ii python3-six 1.15.0-1 python3-virtualenv recommends no packages. python3-virtualenv suggests no packages. -- no debconf information