unspecified dependency on python-pkg-resources

[Kyler Laird]

On a fresh Amazon Ubuntu Xenial instance, I installed websockify and got this error when I tried to run it.

root@ip-10-0-0-149:~# websockify
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/websockify", line 5, in <module>
    from pkg_resources import load_entry_point
ImportError: No module named pkg_resources
root@ip-10-0-0-149:~# lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS
Release: 16.04
root@ip-10-0-0-149:~# dpkg -l websockify
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Architecture Description
+++-=============================-===================-===================-===============================================================
ii websockify 0.6.1+dfsg1-1 amd64 WebSockets support for any application/server

Installing python-pkg-resources solves the problem.

[Christian Ehrhardt  (paelzer)]

Hi,
you are right I can confirm that from Xenial through Zesty.

[Christian Ehrhardt  (paelzer)]

Yep, fixed by installation of python-pkg-resources.

I wonder why that is not auto picked up by ${python:Depends} in d/control

[Christian Ehrhardt  (paelzer)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better.

This bug is present in Debian too, and Ubuntu currently doesn't make any changes over the Debian package. So this bug would be best fixed directly in Debian, and then Ubuntu will pick up the fix automatically.

Would you mind filing a bug with Debian please?

[dino99 (9d9)]

Fixed on Artful +