Package: python2.7 Version: 2.7.16-2+deb10u1 Severity: normal
-- System Information: Debian Release: 10.7 APT prefers stable-updates APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 4.19.0-13-amd64 (SMP w/20 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US:en (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) LSM: AppArmor: enabled Versions of packages python2.7 depends on: ii libpython2.7-stdlib 2.7.16-2+deb10u1 ii mime-support 3.62 ii python2.7-minimal 2.7.16-2+deb10u1 python2.7 recommends no packages. Versions of packages python2.7 suggests: ii binutils 2.31.1-16 pn python2.7-doc <none> -- no debconf information -- Additional Informations When you install a python-backports-xxx package, the directory backports is created in /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages. Then, most data of the package are copied in this directory. then you can import modules of this package with an "import backports.xxx" If at a later time you install using pip a backported module not provided within a package, for example backports.lzma, with command pip install backports.lzma, pip create a directory backports in /usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages. In this directoty pip copy most of data of this module. The problem is that this module is impossible to import import backports.lzma return ImportError: No module named lzma but, if I look at my sys path I see that /usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages is in the path >>> print sys.path ['', '/usr/lib/python2.7', '/usr/lib/python2.7/plat-x86_64-linux-gnu', '/usr/lib/python2.7/lib-tk', '/usr/lib/python2.7/lib-old', '/usr/lib/python2.7/lib-dynload', '/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages', '/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages', '/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/gtk-2.0', '/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/wx-3.0-gtk3'] the only possible workaround I have found is to symlink module directories in /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages as if the module would have been installed from a Debian package -- IMPORTANT NOTICE: The contents of this email and any attachments are confidential and may also be privileged. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify the sender immediately and do not disclose the contents to any other person, use it for any purpose, or store or copy the information in any medium. Thank you.
