> On Dec 2, 2014, at 6:32 PM, Scott Kitterman <deb...@kitterman.com> wrote: > > Assuming the maintainer doesn't decide to downgrade the bug (which I think is > unlikely and a number of people would object to, so I think we can ignore it > as a possibility), the decision to ignore the bug for Jessie belongs with the > release team. If we choose not to fix it (and there's no Non-Maintainer > Upload), then they will decide to either remove the package or ignore the bug. > > Since this particular issue is release critical, the December 5th deadline > isn't relevant to a targeted fix just for this issue. > > Scott K
So the issue here is that pip is removing apt “owned” files implicitly during an upgrade right? Looking at easy_install there’s no Serious bug there and the primary difference between what will happen if you easy_install something and pip install something is that pip might remove files from /usr/lib. In both cases the items installed by both solutions will be in /usr/local/lib. So what if Debian just patched python-pip so that it doesn’t remove the files from /usr/lib (but it would remove files from /usr/local etc). This would have the effect of pip not touching dpkg owned files which would bring it in line with that easy_install does. /usr/local/lib takes precedence over /usr/lib so it won’t break things for people actually trying to install things to /usr/local. There *might* be some edge cases that occurs with having two versions of a package on sys.path, but I can’t think of any offhand (and either way, those edge cases already exist if someone does ``apt-get install python-requests && pip install —upgrade requests`` and then later on Debian releases a new update to python-requests since those files that pip removed will get reinstalled in that situation. That should fix the immediate problem this bug addresses and then we can figure out a longer term “real” fix in upstream pip that can go into Jessie+1. --- Donald Stufft PGP: 7C6B 7C5D 5E2B 6356 A926 F04F 6E3C BCE9 3372 DCFA -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
