[Python-modules-team] Bug#912379: Please update the pip package

[Scott Kitterman]

On Fri, 10 Jan 2020 00:02:12 -0800 Nye Liu <nyet at nyet.org> wrote:
> this bug is now more than a year old.
> 
> Please update python3-pip and python-pip packages to >19.1

The same problem still exists with 20.2 in unstable.  It appears that the 
fundamental problem is that pip uses a modified pkg_resources copy (despite 
their own rules to not modify vendored code) and then blames downstreams for 
unbundling (which they do support).

Scott K