[Python-modules-team] Bug#949733: python-pip: 'pip install' don't work for python2 in Debian10

[joanluc]

Package: python-pip
Version: 18.1-5
Severity: grave
Tags: a11y
Justification: renders package unusable

Dear Maintainer,

When invoking `usr/bin/pip' with any command of it, the program crashes with
the message :
"Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/pip", line 9, in <module>
    from pip._internal import main
ImportError: No module named _internal"

I tried making a workaround by replacing the line
"from pip._internal import main" by "from pip import main" in '/usr/bin/pip'
but it did crash after having downloaded the module.



-- System Information:
Debian Release: bullseye/sid
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 5.4.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/16 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages python-pip depends on:
ii  ca-certificates  20190110
ii  python           2.7.17-2
ii  python-pip-whl   18.1-5

Versions of packages python-pip recommends:
ii  build-essential    12.8
ii  python-all-dev     2.7.17-2
ii  python-setuptools  44.0.0-1
ii  python-wheel       0.33.6-2

python-pip suggests no packages.

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