Comment 18 for bug 1290847

On Apr 24, 2014, at 07:38 PM, Matthias Klose wrote:

>So why not build the wheel files from the Debian python-pip source
>package, build-depending on python-six, python-requests, etc, then
>revert the de-vendorize patch. The binary package should have Built-
>Using information about these build dependencies. Then provide exactly
>this wheel in the python-pip and the python3-pip packages.

I think we'll have to basically build the recursive vendorized pip from
scratch, using the build-depend packages. We'll probably have to write some
scripts to put all that together, which will include reversing the
de-vendorizing patches, recursively.