Installing python-is-python3 should affect pip as well

[Dimitri John Ledkov]

Installing python-is-python3 should affect pip as well

When I install python-is-python3, python becomes python3 but I still have to type pip3. I think either python-is-python3 should make pip into pip3 (which might be surprising to some, since pip3 is installed separately) or I would like a pip-is-pip3 and pip-is-pip2 package.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Dimitri John Ledkov (xnox)]

Work around is to call pip as a module, i.e.

$ python -m pip

but note there is no python2 version of pip, and no pip2 either.

A bit more care needs to be taken to introduce pip that is forward compatible with what is in groovy.

In groovy python3-pip ships pip & pip3 both of which are python3 version.

[Dimitri John Ledkov (xnox)]

This depends on having pythohn2 pip available too

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Stefano Rivera (stefanor)]

FWIW, since 20.1.1-1 python3-pip provides a pip binary equal to pip3.

There is no pip2. And there is no 2.7 pip library that it execute. So, I'm not sure this bug is fixable.