Hi, Clack Boylan, from the OpenStack infra team, wrote this patch:
https://github.com/pypa/pip/pull/6367/commits/f8292a304deebcf0e4cda2e40caa226c70030f11 which fixes this: https://bugs.debian.org/837764 I do believe this should be part of Buster. Any objection? Cheers, Thomas Goirand (zigo)