Package: python3-virtualenv Version: 20.4.0+ds-2+deb11u1 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer,
In older versions of Debian, python-virtualenv and python3-virtualenv did not depend on the python-pip or python3-pip packages (only python-pip-whl). It is convenient to be able to install and use virtualenv *without* having /usr/bin/pip and /usr/bin/pip3 installed, so that one does not accidentally install stuff into ~/.local/lib while intending to use a virtualenv prefix. (I don't know of any reason a user would ever want to invoke the /usr/bin/pip binary in connection with using virtualenv.) It's not apparent why this dependency was added, since python3-virtualenv now depends on *both* python3-pip and python-pip-whl. And the basic functionality, at least, of /usr/bin/virtualenv works correctly after forcibly removing the python3-pip package. So please remove this dependency, or downgrade to a Suggests at best. -- System Information: Debian Release: 11.4 APT prefers stable APT policy: (990, 'stable'), (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable-security'), (500, 'stable-debug') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 5.10.0-16-amd64 (SMP w/40 CPU threads) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) LSM: AppArmor: enabled Versions of packages python3-virtualenv depends on: ii python-pip-whl 20.3.4-4+deb11u1 ii python3 3.9.2-3 ii python3-appdirs 1.4.4-1 ii python3-distlib 0.3.2+really+0.3.1-0.1 ii python3-distutils 3.9.2-1 ii python3-filelock 3.0.12-2 ii python3-importlib-metadata 1.6.0-2 ii python3-pip 20.3.4-4+deb11u1 ii python3-pkg-resources 52.0.0-4 ii python3-six 1.16.0-2 python3-virtualenv recommends no packages. python3-virtualenv suggests no packages. -- debconf-show failed
