python-pip recommends nonexistent python-dev-all package

Bug #1495708 reported by skierpage
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
One Hundred Papercuts
Fix Released
Medium
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python-pip (Debian)
Fix Released
Unknown
python-pip (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Medium
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Bug Description

`sudo apt-get install python-pip` displays:
    Recommended packages:
      python-dev-all

but there's no such package in 15.04 and I couldn't find it at all at http://packages.ubuntu.com/

There is a python-dev package.

The error I get is
% sudo apt-get install python-dev-all
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Package python-dev-all is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source

E: Package 'python-dev-all' has no installation candidate

Tags: vivid wily
Revision history for this message
Hans Joachim Desserud (hjd) wrote :

Thanks for taking your time to report this issue and help making Ubuntu better.

I was able to confirm this issue so I've created a small patch for it and forwarded to Debian.

Changed in python-pip (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
tags: added: vivid wily
Changed in python-pip (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Low
importance: Low → Medium
Changed in hundredpapercuts:
importance: Undecided → Medium
status: New → Confirmed
Changed in python-pip (Debian):
status: Unknown → New
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Barry Warsaw (barry) wrote :

Thanks for forwarding to Debian!

Changed in python-pip (Debian):
status: New → Fix Committed
Changed in python-pip (Debian):
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
Revision history for this message
Hans Joachim Desserud (hjd) wrote :

python-pip 8.1.1-2 in Ubuntu 16.04 no longer recommends non-existing packages. http://packages.ubuntu.com/xenial/python-pip

Changed in python-pip (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → Fix Released
Changed in hundredpapercuts:
status: Confirmed → Fix Released
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