[Bug 1264735] [NEW] Distribute is deprecated and not maintained

[Sebastien Douche]

Public bug reported:

Distribute is a fork of Setuptools. Since march, Distribute and
Setuptools was merged[1] (the old name was prefered[2]) and 9 versions
of Setuptools was released (the last one is Setuptools 2.0). But
Distribute disallows installing Setuptools 0.7+ over Distribute. Some
tools doesn't work with Distribute (like Buildout[3]). Secondly, and
more importantly Distribute is deprecated. Please switch from Distribute
to Setuptools.


[1] https://mail.python.org/pipermail/distutils-sig/2013-March/020126.html
[2] http://pythonhosted.org/setuptools/merge-faq.html#why-setuptools-and-not-distribute-or-another-name
[3] https://pypi.python.org/pypi/zc.buildout/2.2.1#id4

** Affects: distribute (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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Title:
  Distribute is deprecated and not maintained

Status in “distribute” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  Distribute is a fork of Setuptools. Since march, Distribute and
  Setuptools was merged[1] (the old name was prefered[2]) and 9 versions
  of Setuptools was released (the last one is Setuptools 2.0). But
  Distribute disallows installing Setuptools 0.7+ over Distribute. Some
  tools doesn't work with Distribute (like Buildout[3]). Secondly, and
  more importantly Distribute is deprecated. Please switch from
  Distribute to Setuptools.


  [1] https://mail.python.org/pipermail/distutils-sig/2013-March/020126.html
  [2] http://pythonhosted.org/setuptools/merge-faq.html#why-setuptools-and-not-distribute-or-another-name
  [3] https://pypi.python.org/pypi/zc.buildout/2.2.1#id4

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