[Python-modules-team] Bug#657068: python-pip: doesn't track dependencies?

[Ian Zimmerman]

Package: python-pip
Version: 1.0-1
Severity: normal

Hi, I would have thunk that part of pip's job was to track package
dependencies (in the Python sense, not in the Debian sense) and traverse
the dependencies DAG before installing a distribution.  But try this:

apt-get remove python-dateutil
(or alternatively, if python-dateutil is installed locally)
pip uninstall python-dateutil

pip install hgit

hgit -V

you get a stacktrace because package 'dateutil', which hgit imports, is
not installed.  But hgit properly declares a dependency on it in its
setup.py.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 3.1.0-1-686-pae (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages python-pip depends on:
ii  python                2.7.2-9
ii  python-pkg-resources  0.6.24-1
ii  python-setuptools     0.6.24-1
ii  python2.7             2.7.2-8

python-pip recommends no packages.

python-pip suggests no packages.

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