** Changed in: distribute (Debian)
Status: Unknown => New
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Title:
egg-info directory name lacks Python version string
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This is an issue in the upstream Debian python-setuptools package. I've
discussed it with the Debian maintainer for python-setuptools and filed
a bug here: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=618367
** Bug watch added: Debian Bug tracker #618367
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Hello everyone, I'm affected by this bug on ubuntu 10.10
I was looking at the sources for the python-setuptools package and I found
something interesting:
if you take a look at the diff file included you can see that
setuptools/command/install_egg_info.py has been modified
adding the following
Pip uninstall calls the Distribution.egg_name() method, and appends
".egg-info", to determine where to find package metadata. This is
precisely the same technique used by setuptools/distribute's
install_egg_info command to determine the name of the metadata directory
when creating it (see
https://b
** Description changed:
For some reason, the version of distribute that ships under the python-
setuptools package for Lucid and Maverick creates egg-info directories
that lack the Python version string (on Lucid and Maverick, this
identifier would be "py2.6"). For example, when installing
