ubuntu 24 (and most likely debian 12) does not allow to install evolve

[Georges Racinet]

On 7/16/24 14:27, Uwe Brauer via Mercurial wrote:
>
> Hi
>
>
> I finally gave up, to compile my own mercurial version  and installed mercurial as provided by Ubuntu, which is 6.7.2
>
> They also provide evolve but only version 10.5 which seems uncompatible with hg 6.7.2  (I might file a bug report)

Yes, I was the one to package 10.5 in Debian (and then it found its way 
to Ubuntu), unfortunately I had not a minute to keep it up to date (most 
of the work is pinging people with upload rights until one of them 
becomes available to upload).

I encourage you to file a bug report on Debian bug tracker (and please 
Cc me), stating the hard incompatibility. The package is done according 
to the standards that make bumping the version would be trivial for 
people which are used to the process (automatic update from pypi.org is 
possible).

Best,

>
> However the recommended method
> pip install --user hg-evolve
> or
> pip install --user .
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>
> Was blocked with the following message:
>
> × This environment is externally managed
> ╰─> To install Python packages system-wide, try apt install
>      python3-xyz, where xyz is the package you are trying to
>      install.
>
>      If you wish to install a non-Debian-packaged Python package,
>      create a virtual environment using python3 -m venv path/to/venv.
>      Then use path/to/venv/bin/python and path/to/venv/bin/pip. Make
>      sure you have python3-full installed.
>
>      If you wish to install a non-Debian packaged Python application,
>      it may be easiest to use pipx install xyz, which will manage a
>      virtual environment for you. Make sure you have pipx installed.
>
>      See /usr/share/doc/python3.12/README.venv for more information.
>
> note: If you believe this is a mistake, please contact your Python installation or OS distribution provider. You can override this, at the risk of breaking your Python installation or OS, by passing --break-system-packages.
> hint: See PEP 668 for the detailed specification.
>
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>
>
> Any comments?
>

-- 
Georges Racinet
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