Bug#769922: unblock: python-pip/1.5.6-3

[Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net>]

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On 2014-11-17 17:44, Stefano Rivera wrote:
> Package: release.debian.org
> Severity: normal
> User: release.debian.org@packages.debian.org
> Usertags: unblock
> 
> Please unblock package python-pip
> 
> unblock python-pip/1.5.6-3
> 
> This is a pre-emptive request for an upload fixing important bug
> #751827.
> 
> The bug is that pip uninstall doesn't work inside virtualenvs (which is
> one of the few times it makes sense to use pip on a Debian system).
> As I said in my bug comment:
> 
> [...]
> 
> This bug arises because the setuptools patch from 1 doesn't mangle the
> name, inside a virtualenv, but the pip patch from 2 does. And the
> solution in 3 was masked by the patch in 2.
> 
> So, my solution to this is to drop Debian's patch to pip.
> 
> Proposed debdiff:
> 
> [...]
> 
> 

Looks good, please upload and let us know when it has been accepted into
unstable.

~Niels