New submission from Zooko O'Whielacronx : Tahoe ticket http://allmydata.org/trac/tahoe/ticket/229 -- describes a problem that I found on my home system, running debian/sid, when upgrading from the debian python-setuptools-0.6c7 to 0.6c8 . I have Nevow installed on this box, in a way that is visible to setuptools: specifically {{{import pkg_resources; pkg_resources.require("Nevow")}}} succeeds. However, with 0.6c8 installed, "easy_install Nevow" nevertheless attempts to download and install the latest version according to pypi. 0.6c7 did not: it saw the existing Nevow and refrained from downloading a new copy. I haven't done a lot of analysis of this yet. When Zooko and I looked at it about a month ago, we concluded that it was something specific to the debian 0.6c8 package: installing 0.6c8 from source on a different system did not seem to exhibit the bug. Downgrading to the debian 0.6c7 package resolved the problem. This has been reported to Debian: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=475440 I believe that it is a bug specific to the Debian package of setuptools 0.6c8. It doesn't happen with setuptools 0.6c8 on other platforms, and it doesn't happen with the Debian package of setuptools 0.6c7. ---------- messages: 27 nosy: zooko priority: bug status: unread title: easy_install (debian sid version 0.6c8) will install a package that is already there _______________________________________________ Setuptools tracker http://bugs.python.org/setuptools/issue17 _______________________________________________