Package: python-pip Version: 8.1.1-2 When trying to install a package in editable mode using setuptools extras, pip crashes. Downgrading to pip 8.1.0 fixes the problem. I've demonstrated the problem below using the Debian Sid docker image and the pip GitHub repo as an example.
root@ea22ee879710:~# git clone https://github.com/pypa/pip.git Cloning into 'pip'... remote: Counting objects: 23076, done. remote: Total 23076 (delta 0), reused 0 (delta 0), pack-reused 23075 Receiving objects: 100% (23076/23076), 42.92 MiB | 6.79 MiB/s, done. Resolving deltas: 100% (15899/15899), done. Checking connectivity... done. root@ea22ee879710:~# cd pip/ root@ea22ee879710:~/pip# pip install -e .[testing] Exception: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pip/basecommand.py", line 209, in main status = self.run(options, args) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pip/commands/install.py", line 305, in run wheel_cache File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pip/basecommand.py", line 280, in populate_requirement_set wheel_cache=wheel_cache File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pip/req/req_install.py", line 136, in from_editable editable_req, default_vcs) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pip/req/req_install.py", line 1146, in parse_editable '__placeholder__' + extras File "/usr/share/python-wheels/pkg_resources-0.0.0-py2.py3-none-any.whl/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 2806, in parse req, = parse_requirements(s) File "/usr/share/python-wheels/pkg_resources-0.0.0-py2.py3-none-any.whl/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 2754, in parse_requirements yield Requirement(line) File "/usr/share/python-wheels/pkg_resources-0.0.0-py2.py3-none-any.whl/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 2763, in __init__ raise RequirementParseError(str(e)) RequirementParseError: Invalid requirement, parse error at "'__placeh'" root@ea22ee879710:~/pip# pip install pip==8.1.0 Collecting pip==8.1.0 Downloading pip-8.1.0-py2.py3-none-any.whl (1.2MB) 100% |################################| 1.2MB 1.1MB/s Installing collected packages: pip Found existing installation: pip 8.1.1 Not uninstalling pip at /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages, outside environment /usr Successfully installed pip-8.1.0 You are using pip version 8.1.0, however version 8.1.1 is available. You should consider upgrading via the 'pip install --upgrade pip' command. root@ea22ee879710:~/pip# pip --version pip 8.1.0 from /usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages (python 2.7) root@ea22ee879710:~/pip# pip install -e .[testing] Obtaining file:///root/pip Collecting pytest (from pip==8.2.0.dev0) Downloading pytest-2.9.1-py2.py3-none-any.whl (161kB) 100% |################################| 163kB 1.4MB/s Collecting virtualenv>=1.10 (from pip==8.2.0.dev0) Downloading virtualenv-15.0.1-py2.py3-none-any.whl (1.8MB) 100% |################################| 1.8MB 713kB/s Collecting scripttest>=1.3 (from pip==8.2.0.dev0) Downloading scripttest-1.3.tar.gz Collecting mock (from pip==8.2.0.dev0) Downloading mock-2.0.0-py2.py3-none-any.whl (56kB) 100% |################################| 61kB 11.0MB/s Collecting pretend (from pip==8.2.0.dev0) Downloading pretend-1.0.8-py2.py3-none-any.whl Collecting py>=1.4.29 (from pytest->pip==8.2.0.dev0) Downloading py-1.4.31-py2.py3-none-any.whl (81kB) 100% |################################| 92kB 5.1MB/s Collecting funcsigs>=1 (from mock->pip==8.2.0.dev0) Downloading funcsigs-1.0.2-py2.py3-none-any.whl Collecting six>=1.9 (from mock->pip==8.2.0.dev0) Downloading six-1.10.0-py2.py3-none-any.whl Collecting pbr>=0.11 (from mock->pip==8.2.0.dev0) Downloading pbr-1.9.1-py2.py3-none-any.whl (96kB) 100% |################################| 102kB 8.8MB/s Building wheels for collected packages: scripttest Running setup.py bdist_wheel for scripttest ... done Stored in directory: /root/.cache/pip/wheels/22/b5/64/ef06bb383edbf5a0dcfec1c3259cc58b3cbabceb2612f700fe Successfully built scripttest Installing collected packages: py, pytest, virtualenv, scripttest, funcsigs, six, pbr, mock, pretend, pip Running setup.py develop for pip Successfully installed funcsigs-1.0.2 mock-2.0.0 pbr-1.9.1 pip-8.1.0 pretend-1.0.8 py-1.4.31 pytest-2.9.1 scripttest-1.3 six-1.10.0 virtualenv-15.0.1 You are using pip version 8.1.0, however version 8.1.1 is available. You should consider upgrading via the 'pip install --upgrade pip' command. root@ea22ee879710:~/pip#
