Bug#551926: bug #551926: python-pip and pip: error when trying to install together

Tim Retout tim at retout.co.uk
Mon Nov 30 23:20:26 UTC 2009


[Resending to Ian Bicking's direct email address, since the
virtualenv list address bounced.]

On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 09:49:18AM +0000, Tim Retout wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 12:01:51PM +1100, Adam Kennedy wrote:
> > http://blog.ianbicking.org/2008/10/28/pyinstall-is-dead-long-live-pip/
> > 
> > The Perl package predates the Python one by several years.
> > 
> > The author was made aware of the clash well before it was shipped to
> > Debian and chose to continue anyway.
> 
> This seems like a valid point.  I would like to hear the opinion of the
> upstream author of python-pip on which should be renamed.
> 
> Ultimately this decision will be made by the Debian maintainers of the
> packages, but I reckon it's best to involve upstream as far as possible
> with changes of this kind.
> 
> If we cannot agree on the right course of action, both programs will be
> renamed.

Ian, please see the thread starting at:
http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2009/11/msg01034.html

In short, Debian must rename at least one of the binaries called 'pip'.

My first thought was to rename the perl pip because it was a more
recent addition to Debian, but it's been pointed out that Perl's pip
predates the Python one.  Do you have any thoughts as to how we should
proceed?

-- 
Tim Retout <tim at retout.co.uk>





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