[Bug 1675685] [NEW] Click python namespace clashes with another Python project

[Mathieu Comandon]

Public bug reported:

The click python library provided by Ubuntu uses the namespace `click`
with conflicts with another project with the same name
(http://click.pocoo.org/5/).

This can (and has caused) serious issues. I spent several hours
troubleshooting an Ubuntu 17.04 upgrade because I happened to have click
installed with pip in /usr/local/.

One of the two projects has to let go of the namespace and since the
Ubuntu project isn't used for general programming, is much less
widespread and isn't available in Pypi, this one should change its
namespace to something else.

I noticed this has been done with the deb package, named python3-click-
package (which conflicts with python3-click) but since click is also
installable with pip, this is not enough to avoid issues.

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

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Title:
  Click python namespace clashes with another Python project

Status in click package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  The click python library provided by Ubuntu uses the namespace `click`
  with conflicts with another project with the same name
  (http://click.pocoo.org/5/).

  This can (and has caused) serious issues. I spent several hours
  troubleshooting an Ubuntu 17.04 upgrade because I happened to have
  click installed with pip in /usr/local/.

  One of the two projects has to let go of the namespace and since the
  Ubuntu project isn't used for general programming, is much less
  widespread and isn't available in Pypi, this one should change its
  namespace to something else.

  I noticed this has been done with the deb package, named python3
  -click-package (which conflicts with python3-click) but since click is
  also installable with pip, this is not enough to avoid issues.

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