I noticed a possible validation of the proposed solution. Upstream does not include "wheel" in the list of packages that need to be vendored [0]. (But there is an over-selective glob that implicitly and inadvertently adds wheel.whl to the path [1]).
[0]: https://github.com/pypa/pip/blob/5cac4dc6bd4c2150380d5368f2541357364b5d4b/src/pip/_vendor/__init__.py#L61-L114 [1]: https://github.com/pypa/pip/blob/5cac4dc6bd4c2150380d5368f2541357364b5d4b/src/pip/_vendor/__init__.py#L56-L58 On Fri, May 8, 2020 at 12:45 AM Debian Bug Tracking System <ow...@bugs.debian.org> wrote: > > Thank you for filing a new Bug report with Debian. > > You can follow progress on this Bug here: 959997: > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=959997. > > This is an automatically generated reply to let you know your message > has been received. > > Your message is being forwarded to the package maintainers and other > interested parties for their attention; they will reply in due course. > > As you requested using X-Debbugs-CC, your message was also forwarded to > nikhil.bene...@gmail.com > (after having been given a Bug report number, if it did not have one). > > Your message has been sent to the package maintainer(s): > Debian Python Modules Team <python-modules-t...@lists.alioth.debian.org> > > If you wish to submit further information on this problem, please > send it to 959...@bugs.debian.org. > > Please do not send mail to ow...@bugs.debian.org unless you wish > to report a problem with the Bug-tracking system. > > -- > 959997: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=959997 > Debian Bug Tracking System > Contact ow...@bugs.debian.org with problems