regression: distribute will attempt to install a package when it shouldn't, causing failure to install

[Zooko Wilcox-O'Hearn]

Folks:

The "python-setuptools" package in Ubuntu Karmic works for my use case but the "python-setuptools" package in Ubuntu Lucid fails due to a bug that was fixed in the upstream setuptools project but either was not fixed or has subsequently regressed in the upstream "distribute" project. Here is the link to the Distribute project issue:

http://bitbucket.org/tarek/distribute/issue/142/easy_install-will-install-a-package-that-is-already

Here is the link to the setuptools project issue (fixed in setuptools-0.6c10):

http://bugs.python.org/setuptools/issue17

[Zooko Wilcox-O'Hearn (zooko)]

This issue is currently causing headaches for my co-workers at http://simplegeo.com . At this point I'm hoping that they'll just revert to Karmic. Karmic is fine. We don't need Lucid at this point.

[Scott Kitterman (kitterman)]

Setuptools is provided by distribute in Lucid.