Debian testing and virtual environment error message

[Christian Heimes]

On 27/12/2020 04.05, songbird wrote:
> songbird wrote:
> ...
>>   The package mentioned is installed:
>>
>>
>> =====
>>
>> $ dpkg -l | grep python3-venv
>> ii  python3-venv                         3.9.0-4                        amd64        pyvenv-3 binary for python3 (default python3 version)
>>
> 
>   here is something i missed including in my first post, but i don't
> know if this matters:
> 
> ii  python3.9-venv                       3.9.1-1                        amd64        Interactive high-level object-oriented language (pyvenv binary, version 3.9)

Don't worry, you are not the first person that ran into this issue.

Debian's packaging of Python has caused multiple issues. I have reported
some issues to downstream Debian/Ubuntu. You can find a list of all
known issues at
https://gist.github.com/tiran/2dec9e03c6f901814f6d1e8dad09528e

Christian