[lucid] installs old version of setuptools

[Andrew Straw]

Binary package hint: python-virtualenv

python-virtualenv 1.3.3-1ubuntu1 in lucid installs an old version of setuptools:

astraw@computer:~$ dpkg -L python-virtualenv | grep setuptools
/usr/share/pyshared/support-files/setuptools-0.6c9-py2.6.egg
/usr/share/pyshared/support-files/setuptools-0.6c9-py2.5.egg

astraw@computer:~$ apt-cache show python-setuptools | grep Version
Version: 0.6.10-1ubuntu1
Python-Version: 2.5, 2.6

Running the following script results in a traceback.

------------- start of test script

#!/bin/bash
set -e

TARGET=PYst

rm -rf foo
rm -rf $TARGET

cat > setup.py <<EOF
from setuptools import setup

setup(name='foo',
      version='1.0',
      packages=['foo'],
      zip_safe=False,
      )
EOF

mkdir foo
touch foo/__init__.py

virtualenv $TARGET

$TARGET/bin/python setup.py install

------------- end of test script

The traceback is:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "setup.py", line 6, in <module>
    zip_safe=False,
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/distutils/core.py", line 113, in setup
    _setup_distribution = dist = klass(attrs)
  File "/tmp/PYst/lib/python2.6/site-packages/setuptools-0.6c9-py2.6.egg/setuptools/dist.py", line 223, in __init__
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/distutils/dist.py", line 270, in __init__
    self.finalize_options()
  File "/tmp/PYst/lib/python2.6/site-packages/setuptools-0.6c9-py2.6.egg/setuptools/dist.py", line 256, in finalize_options
  File "/tmp/PYst/lib/python2.6/site-packages/setuptools-0.6c9-py2.6.egg/pkg_resources.py", line 1918, in load
    while parts and parts[-1]=='00000000':
ImportError: <module 'setuptools.dist' from '/tmp/PYst/lib/python2.6/site-packages/setuptools-0.6c9-py2.6.egg/setuptools/dist.py'> has no 'check_packages' attribute

Rebuilding virtualenv 1.3.3-1ubuntu1 does not fix the issue, but installing virtualenv 1.4.5 fixes the issue. (I used 1.4.5-1 from my PPA.)

[Kai Steverding (kai-steverding)]

This bug can be resolved by switching the setuptools egg which is distributed with the virtualenv package. A quick workaround is builind the package from source copying the setuptools-0.6c10 egg. over the included setuptools-0.6c9 , but this is quite dirty

[Scott Robinson (scott-ubuntu)]

This issue actually makes Lucid virtualenv unusable because distribute setuptools vs. old-setuptools setuptools clash.

[Benoit Chesneau (bchesneau)]

i have this bug here too on lucid :

(mtcompono)benoitc@benoitc-desktop:~/work/mtcompono/src/restkit$ python setup.py develpop
/home/benoitc/work/mtcompono/lib/python2.6/site-packages/setuptools-0.6c9-py2.6.egg/setuptools/command/sdist.py:4: UserWarning: Module pkg_resources was already imported from /home/benoitc/work/mtcompono/lib/python2.6/site-packages/setuptools-0.6c9-py2.6.egg/pkg_resources.py, but /usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages is being added to sys.path
/home/benoitc/work/mtcompono/lib/python2.6/site-packages/setuptools-0.6c9-py2.6.egg/setuptools/command/sdist.py:4: UserWarning: Module setuptools was already imported from /home/benoitc/work/mtcompono/lib/python2.6/site-packages/setuptools-0.6c9-py2.6.egg/setuptools/__init__.py, but /usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages is being added to sys.path
/home/benoitc/work/mtcompono/lib/python2.6/site-packages/setuptools-0.6c9-py2.6.egg/setuptools/command/sdist.py:4: UserWarning: Module site was already imported from /home/benoitc/work/mtcompono/lib/python2.6/site.pyc, but /usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages is being added to sys.path
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "setup.py", line 55, in <module>
    test_suite = 'nose.collector',
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/distutils/core.py", line 113, in setup
    _setup_distribution = dist = klass(attrs)
  File "/home/benoitc/work/mtcompono/lib/python2.6/site-packages/setuptools-0.6c9-py2.6.egg/setuptools/dist.py", line 223, in __init__
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/distutils/dist.py", line 270, in __init__
    self.finalize_options()
  File "/home/benoitc/work/mtcompono/lib/python2.6/site-packages/setuptools-0.6c9-py2.6.egg/setuptools/dist.py", line 256, in finalize_options
  File "/home/benoitc/work/mtcompono/lib/python2.6/site-packages/setuptools-0.6c9-py2.6.egg/pkg_resources.py", line 1918, in load
    while parts and parts[-1]=='00000000':
ImportError: <module 'setuptools.dist' from '/home/benoitc/work/mtcompono/lib/python2.6/site-packages/setuptools-0.6c9-py2.6.egg/setuptools/dist.py'> has no 'check_packages' attribute

[alien8 (fb-alien8)]

The bug is still there.

[Māris Fogels (mars)]

People affected by this bug in Lucid may also want to track Bug #485944, "Upgrade to virtualenv 1.4.5".

[Barry Warsaw (barry)]

@Maris: in fact, I'm going to mark this one a duplicate of bug 485944, since syncing to Debian's 1.4.5 will fix this problem.