[pkg-lxc-devel] Bug#824669: lxc: python3 package name illegal

[Brice Waegeneire]

Package: lxc
Version: 1:1.0.6-6+deb8u2
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,

The lxc package conatain python3 package informations which aren't correct and make some versions (eg: 8.1.2) of pip to crash. Typically when lxc and virtualenv are installed doing "pip3 freeze" produce this trace: pip._vendor.pkg_resources.RequirementParseError: Invalid requirement, parse error at "'-lxc==0.'"
It came from /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/_lxc-0.1.egg-info which set the name of the python pacakge to "-lxc" which isn't allowed.

For more context, have a look at this issue https://github.com/pypa/pip/issues/3681


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 8.4
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable'), (300, 'testing'), (50, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 4.2.0-0.bpo.1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.utf8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages lxc depends on:
ii  init-system-helpers  1.22
ii  libapparmor1         2.10-4
ii  libc6                2.19-18+deb8u4
ii  libcap2              1:2.24-8
ii  libseccomp2          2.2.3-3~bpo8+1
ii  libselinux1          2.3-2
ii  multiarch-support    2.19-18+deb8u4
ii  python3              3.4.2-2

Versions of packages lxc recommends:
ii  debootstrap  1.0.73~bpo8+1
ii  openssl      1.0.1k-3+deb8u5
ii  rsync        3.1.1-3

Versions of packages lxc suggests:
pn  lua5.2  <none>

-- Configuration Files:
/etc/lxc/default.conf changed [not included]

-- no debconf information