[Bug 517390] [NEW] [lucid] installs old version of setuptools

[Andrew Straw]

Public bug reported:

Binary package hint: python-virtualenv

python-virtualenv 1.3.3-1ubuntu1 in lucid installs an old version of
setuptools:

astraw at computer:~$ dpkg -L python-virtualenv | grep setuptools
/usr/share/pyshared/support-files/setuptools-0.6c9-py2.6.egg
/usr/share/pyshared/support-files/setuptools-0.6c9-py2.5.egg

astraw at computer:~$ apt-cache show python-setuptools | grep Version
Version: 0.6.10-1ubuntu1
Python-Version: 2.5, 2.6

Running the following script results in a traceback.

------------- start of test script

#!/bin/bash
set -e

TARGET=PYst

rm -rf foo
rm -rf $TARGET

cat > setup.py <<EOF
from setuptools import setup

setup(name='foo',
      version='1.0',
      packages=['foo'],
      zip_safe=False,
      )
EOF

mkdir foo
touch foo/__init__.py

virtualenv $TARGET

$TARGET/bin/python setup.py install

------------- end of test script

The traceback is:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "setup.py", line 6, in <module>
    zip_safe=False,
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/distutils/core.py", line 113, in setup
    _setup_distribution = dist = klass(attrs)
  File "/tmp/PYst/lib/python2.6/site-packages/setuptools-0.6c9-py2.6.egg/setuptools/dist.py", line 223, in __init__
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/distutils/dist.py", line 270, in __init__
    self.finalize_options()
  File "/tmp/PYst/lib/python2.6/site-packages/setuptools-0.6c9-py2.6.egg/setuptools/dist.py", line 256, in finalize_options
  File "/tmp/PYst/lib/python2.6/site-packages/setuptools-0.6c9-py2.6.egg/pkg_resources.py", line 1918, in load
    while parts and parts[-1]=='00000000':
ImportError: <module 'setuptools.dist' from '/tmp/PYst/lib/python2.6/site-packages/setuptools-0.6c9-py2.6.egg/setuptools/dist.py'> has no 'check_packages' attribute

Rebuilding virtualenv 1.3.3-1ubuntu1 does not fix the issue, but
installing virtualenv 1.4.5 fixes the issue. (I used 1.4.5-1 from my
PPA.)

** Affects: python-virtualenv (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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[lucid] installs old version of setuptools
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