[Python-modules-team] Bug#733286: wheel command listed as available but actually absent since there seems to be no wheel in Debian yet

[Yaroslav Halchenko]

Package: python-pip
Version: 1.4.1-2
Severity: minor

$> pip --help | grep wheel
  wheel                       Build wheels from your requirements.

$> pip wheel
ERROR: 'pip wheel' requires bdist_wheel from the 'wheel' distribution.

$> acsearch pip wheel
libpoe-component-dbiagent-perl - POE Component for running asynchronous DBI calls

$> acsearch python wheel
python-grapefruit - Python module to manipulate color information easily
python-kwwidgets - Cross-Platform GUI Toolkit - Python
python-speechd - Python interface to Speech Dispatcher
python-tagpy - Python module for manipulating tags in music files

$> wnpp-check wheel
(RFP - #636081) http://bugs.debian.org/636081 prayerwheel

BTW -- upstream tuned up the error msg to be a bit more descriptive:
https://github.com/pypa/pip/issues/1085


-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (900, 'testing'), (600, 'unstable'), (300, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 3.9-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages python-pip depends on:
ii  ca-certificates       20130906
ii  python                2.7.5-5
ii  python-pkg-resources  0.6.49-2
ii  python-setuptools     0.6.49-2

Versions of packages python-pip recommends:
ii  build-essential  11.6
pn  python-dev-all   <none>

python-pip suggests no packages.

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