Doesn't work: broken imports

[orbisvicis]

$ subliminal -h
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/subliminal", line 5, in <module>
    from pkg_resources import load_entry_point
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/pkg_resources.py", line 2876, in <module>
    working_set = WorkingSet._build_master()
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/pkg_resources.py", line 449, in _build_master
    ws.require(__requires__)
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/pkg_resources.py", line 745, in require
    needed = self.resolve(parse_requirements(requirements))
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/pkg_resources.py", line 639, in resolve
    raise DistributionNotFound(req)
pkg_resources.DistributionNotFound: argparse

Problem caused by https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/stevedore/+bug/1401783.

It's great that subliminal has finally been packages for 14.10, but not great because it just doesn't work. Since this is a new package hopefully there is some current interest in fixing it, so please work this up the chain, generate interest, and in general put some pressure to fix the referenced (above) source bug report.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Hans Joachim Desserud (hjd)]

Thanks for reporting.

Now that bug 1401783 has been resolved, I am no longer able to trigger this error on Ubuntu 16.04. I therefore believe this issue can be marked Fix Resolved. Based on the other bug there doesn't seem to be an SRU planned for older releases, but one of the comments mentions a workaround (I haven't tested this myself).