Python3 can't co-exist with Oracle's VirtualBox on 20.10
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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dh-python (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
what-is-python (Ubuntu) |
Invalid
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Sorry I couldn't file this bug against the correct packages. The form told me there are no such packages as python-is-python3 and dh-python in Ubuntu...
Release: Groovy Gorilla (Ubuntu 20.10).
Package versions:
python-is-python3 3.8.2-4
dh-python 4.20200925
The release of Ubuntu 20.10 is less than two weeks out, so I'd like to draw attention to a problem I've run into. It seems that 20.10 defaults to python3 and wants to install python-is-python3, which pulls in the latest version of dh-python, which in turn can't co-exist with Oracle's Virtualbox-6.1 and wants to uninstall it.
I don't mind having _both_ python2 (apparently a requirement of VirtualBox) and python3 installed. But as of right now I can have either python-is-python3, and not be able to do a complete upgrade since virtualbox-6.1 will be uninstalled, or python-is-python2, in which case I cripple 20.10's python3 install, since I won't get dh-python and python-six.
Ia there something the python packagers do about this?
affects: | ubuntu → what-is-python (Ubuntu) |
tags: |
added: groovy removed: 20.10 |
Changed in what-is-python (Ubuntu): | |
status: | Incomplete → Invalid |
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