It would be great to get this fixed as more people are upgrading servers
and CI environments to Ubuntu 20.04 and starting to find weird edge
cases related to this bug (besides not being able to install many
popular packages from PPAs that haven't been updated like Ansible's).
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This affects me as well; there are a number of build tools and test
environments I maintain and/or use which assume the availability of
easy_install if python-setuptools is installed.
Outside of this issue, the only helpful documentation I could find was
on Stack Exchange: