Comment 6 for bug 1774419

This affects me as well; there are a number of build tools and test environments I maintain and/or use which assume the availability of easy_install if python-setuptools is installed.

Outside of this issue, the only helpful documentation I could find was on Stack Exchange: https://askubuntu.com/a/1052682/88829

The Bionic package even states (ref: https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/bionic/+source/python-setuptools):

> The setuptools project also includes the widely used easy_install application for downloading and installing Python packages.

...which would seem to indicate easy_install should be available after installing the package.