[Python-modules-team] Bug#894684: python3-virtualenv: missing dependency: python3-distutils ?

[Dov Feldstern]

Package: python3-virtualenv
Version: 15.1.0+ds-1
Severity: important

Dear Maintainer,

After a recent upgrade, attempts to create a new virtualenv failed as follows:

  $ virtualenv 
  Traceback (most recent call last):
    File "/usr/bin/virtualenv", line 11, in <module>
      load_entry_point('virtualenv==15.1.0', 'console_scripts', 'virtualenv')()
    File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 480, in load_entry_point
      return get_distribution(dist).load_entry_point(group, name)
    File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 2693, in load_entry_point
      return ep.load()
    File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 2324, in load
      return self.resolve()
    File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 2330, in resolve
      module = __import__(self.module_name, fromlist=['__name__'], level=0)
    File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/virtualenv.py", line 25, in <module>
      import distutils.sysconfig
  ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'distutils.sysconfig'

This was solved for me by installing python3-distutils. Perhaps this should be a required dependency pf python3-virtualenv?

Thanks!
Dov

-- System Information:
Debian Release: buster/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 4.15.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_IL.UTF8, LC_CTYPE=en_IL.UTF8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_IL:en (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages python3-virtualenv depends on:
ii  python-pip-whl         9.0.1-2
ii  python3                3.6.5~rc1-1
ii  python3-pkg-resources  39.0.1-1

python3-virtualenv recommends no packages.

python3-virtualenv suggests no packages.

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