I migrated from an openSUSE systemto a Debian system. When I execute on the Debian system: pip3 list --outdated --format=legacy
I get: Exception: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/pip/basecommand.py", line 215, in main status = self.run(options, args) File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/pip/commands/list.py", line 157, in run packages = self.get_outdated(packages, options) File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/pip/commands/list.py", line 168, in get_outdated dist for dist in self.iter_packages_latest_infos(packages, options) File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/pip/commands/list.py", line 169, in <listcomp> if dist.latest_version > dist.parsed_version TypeError: unorderable types: Version() > SetuptoolsVersion() What is happening here? On my openSUSE system it worked without a problem. It is a Debian 9 system and the pip3 version is: pip 9.0.1 from /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages (python 3.5) -- Cecil Westerhof Senior Software Engineer LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/cecilwesterhof -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list