Subject: bug#248 closed by Mark Hindley <[email-masked]> (Fixed in Debian #912379)

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#248: Pip3 can't list outdated packages.

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Subject: Fixed in Debian #912379
From: Mark Hindley <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
Date: Wed, 8 Feb 2023 15:25:52 +0000

Version: 20.0.2-4

Subject: Pip3 can't list outdated packages.
From: Γιώργος Κωστόπουλος <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
Date: Sat, 13 Oct 2018 19:12:03 +0300

Package: python3-pip
Version: 9.0.1-2

Pip3 fails to locate packages, needs updating.
Trying to do that, throws an exception.

Please take a look, at the following console output:
>pip3 list -o
Exception:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/pip/basecommand.py", line 215, in main
    status = self.run(options, args)
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/pip/commands/list.py", line 157, in run
    packages = self.get_outdated(packages, options)
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/pip/commands/list.py", line
168, in get_outdated
    dist for dist in self.iter_packages_latest_infos(packages, options)
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/pip/commands/list.py", line
169, in <listcomp>
    if dist.latest_version > dist.parsed_version
TypeError: unorderable types: Version() > SetuptoolsVersion()

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