I think this is a more recent regression than that bug report, which was
filed against python3-venv-3.5.1-2. The package python3-venv 3.6.4-1
works fine, but not python3-venv-3.6.5-3.
Best wishes,
Kai
On Fri, 15 Jun 2018 13:00:39 +0200 Salvo Tomaselli
wrote:
> Package: python3-venv
> Version: 3.6.5-3
> Severity: grave
> Justification: renders package unusable
>
> Dear Maintainer,
>
> the manpage for the module states:
> > pyvenv-3.3 - create virtual python environments
>
> However, currently, it can't do that because of this:
>
> > The virtual environment was not created successfully because ensurepip is
> > not
> > available. On Debian/Ubuntu systems, you need to install the python3-venv
> > package using the following command.
> >
> > apt-get install python3-venv
> >
> > You may need to use sudo with that command. After installing the
> > python3-venv
> > package, recreate your virtual environment.
>
> But the issue is tagged as wontfix here: #816740
>
> This means that the package is and will forever be totally useless, since it
> is
> meant to create virtual environments and it cannot do so.
>
> So please just drop it from archive, because there is no point in it existing.
>
> Best
>
>
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: buster/sid
> APT prefers testing
> APT policy: (500, 'testing')
> Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
> Foreign Architectures: i386
>
> Kernel: Linux 4.16.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
> Locale: LANG=it_IT.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=it_IT.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored:
> LC_ALL set to it_IT.UTF-8), LANGUAGE=it (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set
> to it_IT.UTF-8)
> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
> Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
> LSM: AppArmor: enabled
>
> Versions of packages python3-venv depends on:
> ii python33.6.5-3
> ii python3-distutils 3.6.5-4
> ii python3.6-venv 3.6.6~rc1-1
>
> python3-venv recommends no packages.
>
> python3-venv suggests no packages.
>
> -- no debconf information
>
>
