[Touch-packages] [Bug 1536638] [NEW] pip >= 8.0.0 fails because of egg-info files in python stdlib

Public bug reported: Up-to-date pip might fail because ubuntu ships some egg-info files for stdlib packages in /usr/lib/python2.7/, but egg-info files are only for locally installed packages. How to reproduce with argparse: $ virtualenv venv $ . venv/bin/activate $ pip install -U pip $ pip

[Touch-packages] [Bug 1536638] Re: pip >= 8.0.0 fails because of egg-info files in python stdlib

Yes, but not for python stdlib. This is Debian/Ubuntu specific (see debian/rules line 1040). Pip worked around this, but this strange patching might cause errors again in the future. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is