Comment 28 for bug 1290847

Am 04.06.2014 15:51, schrieb btreecat:
> Matthias Klose, coming from a distro who does a lot less mucking about
> with upstream packages, having deafult language behavior broken infavor
> of idealistic guidlines is just plain bad for UX.

there is nothing broken in "default language behaviour". There is a binary
missing which enables you to create a virtual environment.

> Spin it how you want to but shiping broken packages means some one just
> means someone spent the time trying to make the package conform (and I
> agree with Ivo, why is this just now an issue when virtualenv was
> shipping "incorrectly" before.) but failed to take the time to make it
> actually work as expected. It happens, but it should not happen when it
> does not need to. This was clearly an idealistic need rather than
> technical need. Thats why I say "needlessly."

shipping virtualenv in such a way is a mistake, which only was discovered after
the release. Knowingly shipping something which we cannot ship makes things worse.

The issue was known way before the release, and it was promised to get fixed
before the release (which didn't happen). So the next time if you are
interested in a fix included in a release, please help understanding and fixing
these issues.