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 subscribed to python2.7 in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1536638 Title: pip >= 8.0.0 fails because of egg-info files in python stdlib Status in python2.7 package in Ubuntu: Invalid Bug description: 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 install -U argparse Collecting argparse Downloading argparse-1.4.0-py2.py3-none-any.whl Installing collected packages: argparse Found existing installation: argparse 1.2.1 Detected a distutils installed project ('argparse') which we cannot uninstall. The metadata provided by distutils does not contain a list of files which have been installed, so pip does not know which files to uninstall. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/python2.7/+bug/1536638/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
