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python-pip package

Ubuntu 20.04 missing pip binary

Bug #1927865 reported by Stefano Rivera on 2021-05-09

This bug affects 1 person

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	python-pip (Ubuntu)	Fix Released	Undecided	Unassigned
	Focal	Fix Released	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

[Impact]

* Users can expect a pip binary to exist (e.g. LP: #1872746)
They probably shouldn't be using this when they can use apt to install Python things.
But it's reasonable for them to assume it exists.

* Another user expecting pip (ignore the rest of the gist, for sanity):
https://gist.github.com/tiran/2dec9e03c6f901814f6d1e8dad09528e#gistcomment-3686638

[Test Plan]

# apt install python3-pip
# pip --help

[Where problems could occur]

* There are no code-changes here, just introducing another binary in PATH with the same
entry-point as pip3.

Tags:

Stefano Rivera (stefanor) on 2021-05-09

Changed in python-pip (Ubuntu):
status:	New → Fix Released

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Stefano Rivera (stefanor) wrote on 2021-05-09:

python-pip_20.0.2-5ubuntu1.4.debdiff Edit (4.5 KiB, text/plain)

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Łukasz Zemczak (sil2100) wrote on 2021-05-10:

At first I was a bit weary of this, as I felt that people might think that /usr/bin/pip is a python-pip version of pip - but then I checked and actually we had a pip2 binary to indicate python2 in bionic. So yes, I think it makes sense to re-add pip just now doing the same as pip3.

Changed in python-pip (Ubuntu Focal):
status:	New → Fix Committed
tags:	added: verification-needed verification-needed-focal

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Łukasz Zemczak (sil2100) wrote on 2021-05-10: Please test proposed package

Hello Stefano, or anyone else affected,

Accepted python-pip into focal-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/python-pip/20.0.2-5ubuntu1.4 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation on how to enable and use -proposed. Your feedback will aid us getting this update out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug, mentioning the version of the package you tested, what testing has been performed on the package and change the tag from verification-needed-focal to verification-done-focal. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed-focal. In either case, without details of your testing we will not be able to proceed.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in advance for helping!

N.B. The updated package will be released to -updates after the bug(s) fixed by this package have been verified and the package has been in -proposed for a minimum of 7 days.

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Stefano Rivera (stefanor) wrote on 2021-05-10:

Verified.

tags:

added: verification-done verification-done-focal
removed: verification-needed verification-needed-focal

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Ubuntu SRU Bot (ubuntu-sru-bot) wrote on 2021-05-10: Autopkgtest regression report (python-pip/20.0.2-5ubuntu1.4)

All autopkgtests for the newly accepted python-pip (20.0.2-5ubuntu1.4) for focal have finished running.
The following regressions have been reported in tests triggered by the package:

doit/0.31.1-3.2ubuntu1 (ppc64el, amd64, arm64, s390x, armhf)

Please visit the excuses page listed below and investigate the failures, proceeding afterwards as per the StableReleaseUpdates policy regarding autopkgtest regressions [1].

https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-archive/proposed-migration/focal/update_excuses.html#python-pip

[1] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/StableReleaseUpdates#Autopkgtest_Regressions

Thank you!

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Matthias Klose (doko) wrote on 2021-05-11:

we can ignore the autopkg test failure for doit, downloading packages during the test.
this was fixed in doit 0.31.1-3.3

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote on 2021-05-11:

This bug was fixed in the package python-pip - 20.0.2-5ubuntu1.4

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python-pip (20.0.2-5ubuntu1.4) focal; urgency=medium

* Look for pip config /etc (LP: #1914239)
* Provide the pip binary again (LP: #1927865)

-- Stefano Rivera <email address hidden> Sun, 09 May 2021 12:50:53 -0400

Changed in python-pip (Ubuntu Focal):
status:	Fix Committed → Fix Released

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Łukasz Zemczak (sil2100) wrote on 2021-05-11: Update Released

The verification of the Stable Release Update for python-pip has completed successfully and the package is now being released to -updates. Subsequently, the Ubuntu Stable Release Updates Team is being unsubscribed and will not receive messages about this bug report. In the event that you encounter a regression using the package from -updates please report a new bug using ubuntu-bug and tag the bug report regression-update so we can easily find any regressions.