Comment 5 for bug 1392288

Agreed, this is rather serious, this bug has caused production deploy scripts to fail for us at a bad time (naturally...).

On the other hand, this package is in the universe repository (i.e. unsupported) rather than main. Odd given how important pip is, but oh well.

It's simple enough to fix though, just uninstall the package and easy_install pip to get the newest version (6.x, don't know why the versions jump like that, but they do), which works fine on Utopic.