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python-virtualenv package

  1. Bug #1880749
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Rick Elrod (relrod) wrote : python3 virtualenvs include (broken) bundled pip deps

On a clean 20.04 machine (or container), observe the following:

apt-get update
apt-get install -y python3-virtualenv
python3 -m virtualenv foo && source foo/bin/activate
pip list

You will notice there are a plethora of extra packages in the virtual environment that should not normally be there, resulting in a dirty virtual environment.

The packages listed here are those that are bundled with pip: https://github.com/pypa/pip/tree/master/src/pip/_vendor

To make matters worse, the latest release of pip bundles incompatible versions of libraries. The net result is that `pip install pep517` will show that it is already installed, and but `import pep517` will result in an ImportError.

This problem has been fixed in the Debian Testing/Unstable python-virtualenv package. Could the Ubuntu package backport these fixes?

This is blocking Ansible supporting 20.04 officially, since the dirty virtualenvs are causing our tests to fail. https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/69203