And here is another temporary solution: downgrading to python3-msgpack-0.4.8-1+b1 from Snapshot will also allow Borgbackup to complete.
On 23 Mar 2018, Sven Hartge wrote: > On Fri, 23 Mar 2018 07:52:31 +0100 Gijs Hillenius <g...@hillenius.net> > wrote: > > pkg_resources.DistributionNotFound: The 'msgpack-python>=0.4.6' > distribution was not found and is required by borgbackup > > Quick and extremely dirty workaround: > > Edit > /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/borgbackup-1.1.4.egg-info/requires.txt > and change "msgpack-python" to just "msgpack". > > This gets you running until the package is officially fixed.