[Python-modules-team] Bug#744145: Bug#744145: pip3 breaks after upgrading requests

[Stefano Rivera]

Control: severity -1 wishlist

Hi Chris (2015.01.23_11:34:16_+0200)
> On a clean jessie or sid system (does not happen on wheezy):
> 
>     root# apt-get install python3 python3-pip
>     root# pip3 install --upgrade requests
> 
> After this, every invocation of pip3 fails:

I don't think I consider this bug to be RC. Debian packages have
declared dependencies on other Debian packages. Replacing one with
something newer from upstream, is quite likely to break things.

Supporting user-installed python libraries falls far into wishlist, for
me. At this point in the freeze, I don't think it's worth bothering the
release team, to fix this.

"sudo pip" on a Debian box is dangerous, don't do that, and rather use
virtualenvs, if you need to go off the beaten track.

SR

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