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It's upsetting that Ubuntu is so opposed to ensurepip that they won't even let it work in user mode. There is no way to use these Python standard library featur
by rspeer 10y ago
It's upsetting that Ubuntu is so opposed to ensurepip that they won't even let it work in user mode. There is no way to use these Python standard library features without being root and installing separate Ubuntu packages.
This was Ubuntu bug #1290847, which is now marked as "Fix Released": they consider the current behavior okay.
Python packaging is good now, except on Ubuntu.
- Flimm 10y agoHow does Debian do it?
- rlpb 10y agoThe same people who look after Python in Ubuntu also look after Python in Debian (as part of a wider team) and also are active upstream in Python in making Python work well across all distributions. Ubuntu is hardly on its own here. I recommend that anyone who disagrees with how Python is packaged on Debian and Ubuntu get in touch on the relevant mailing lists. If you think it's wrong, there's probably a use case you're missing, or you'll find that your proposal will badly break some other expected behaviour.