[Python-modules-team] Bug#814571: Bug#814571: python-setuptools-whl and python-pip-whl: error when trying to install together

[Barry Warsaw]

On Feb 15, 2016, at 11:37 AM, Matthias Klose wrote:

>No, in the first place it's a bug to not declare a proper Breaks/Replaces.

Well, in the meantime, you uploaded a new version of python-setuptools, so the
Breaks/Replaces that already exists in python-pip is now out of date.  But if
you agree to remove python-setuptools-whl in 20.0-3, I will update the B/R in
python-pip to match it.

>And yes, you asked me to remove the whl package, but without giving a reason
>for it in your forward.

Okay, but it was discussed fairly extensively in debian-python@ already, both
in terms of the technology and the changes in Debian Python Policy, which are
already committed to its vcs.  But to re-iterate:

Through the use of dirtbike, packages which require -whls will build them at
their own build-time, but this is limited to pip and virtualenv.  Because the
dependencies of upstream pip change, this is the only viable option for
sustainability.  Thus the previous -whl packages sprinkled throughout the
archive should now be removed.

I've included the patch here.  I'm not going to play whack-a-mole with this
bug, but it will be fixed when python-setuptools-whl is removed.
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