[Python-modules-team] Bug#961540: python3-pip: FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/pip/_vendor/vendor.txt'

[Laurent Bonnaud]

Package: python3-pip
Version: 20.1.1-1
Severity: normal


Dear Maintainer,

running "pip3 debug" ends with a FileNotFoundError exception:

$ pip3 debug
WARNING: This command is only meant for debugging. Do not use this with automation for parsing and getting these details, since the output and options of this command may change without notice.
pip version: pip 20.1.1 from /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/pip (python 3.8)
sys.version: 3.8.3 (default, May 14 2020, 11:03:12)
[GCC 9.3.0]
sys.executable: /usr/bin/python3
sys.getdefaultencoding: utf-8
sys.getfilesystemencoding: utf-8
locale.getpreferredencoding: UTF-8
sys.platform: linux
sys.implementation:
  name: cpython
'cert' config value: Not specified
REQUESTS_CA_BUNDLE: None
CURL_CA_BUNDLE: None
pip._vendor.certifi.where(): /etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt
pip._vendor.DEBUNDLED: True
vendored library versions:
ERROR: Exception:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/pip/_internal/cli/base_command.py", line 188, in _main
    status = self.run(options, args)
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/pip/_internal/commands/debug.py", line 233, in run
    show_vendor_versions()
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/pip/_internal/commands/debug.py", line 132, in show_vendor_versions
    vendor_txt_versions = create_vendor_txt_map()
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/pip/_internal/commands/debug.py", line 58, in create_vendor_txt_map
    with open(vendor_txt_path) as f:
FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/pip/_vendor/vendor.txt'


-- System Information:
Debian Release: bullseye/sid
  APT prefers unstable-debug
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental-debug'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 5.6.0-1-rt-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US.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 python3-pip depends on:
ii  ca-certificates     20190110
ii  python-pip-whl      20.1.1-1
ii  python3             3.8.2-3
ii  python3-distutils   3.8.3-2
ii  python3-setuptools  46.1.3-1
ii  python3-wheel       0.34.2-1

Versions of packages python3-pip recommends:
ii  build-essential  12.8
ii  python3-dev      3.8.2-3

python3-pip suggests no packages.

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-- 
Laurent.