On 08/11/2023 16:17, Adam Dinwoodie via Cygwin wrote:
Hullo,It looks like the python39 package is missing dependencies on python-setuptools-wheel and python-pip-wheel. I've not checked, but I suspect earlier Python versions are missing the same dependencies. Without these, the Python built-in venv module doesn't work: $ python3 -m venv v Error: Command '['/home/WDAGUtilityAccount/v/bin/python3', '-Im', 'ensurepip', '--upgrade', '--default-pip']' returned non-zero exit status 1. Compare when the both python-setuptools-wheel and python-pip-wheel are installed: $ python3 -m venv v $ . v/bin/activate (v) $ python3 -c 'import sys; print(sys.path)' ['', '/usr/lib/python39.zip', '/usr/lib/python3.9', '/usr/lib/python3.9/lib-dynload', '/home/WDAGUtilityAccount/v/lib/python3.9/site-packages'] (v) $ deactivate I've attached cygcheck files from sandbox VMs for both the broken and working cases. I'm not sure what the correct fix is here -- possibly adding dependencies, possibly changing how things are packaged -- but I'd expect Python standard library modules to either work or to give an error message that makes it clearer what additional packages are required to make them work.
Yeah. I have a vague recollection there was some other case recently where one these being missing was causing some confusion.
I think the easiest way to convince me that this is a historical oversight would be to look how other distros do this: If they have python depend on python-setuptools and python-wheel, then we probably should as well...
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