Comment 0 for bug 725178

For some reason, the version of distribute that ships under the python-setuptools package for Lucid and Maverick creates egg-info directories that lack the Python version string (on Lucid and Maverick, this identifier would be "py2.6"). For example, when installing the Python package yolk version 0.4.1, the egg-info directory created is named "yolk-0.4.1.egg-info" instead of "yolk-0.4.1-py2.6.egg-info". This has created issues with pip; see issue 104:

https://bitbucket.org/ianb/pip/issue/104/pip-uninstall-on-ubuntu-linux

I am trying to understand why the behavior of the version of distribute that ships in the python-setuptools package is inconsistent with the upstream behavior of distribute.