The package installs its executables incorrectly

[vbrozik]

Environment
Please provide some information about your computer environment:

• OS:

  $ uname -a
  Linux NTT-44Q83J3 5.10.102.1-microsoft-standard-WSL2 #1 SMP Wed Mar 2 00:30:59 UTC 2022 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
  $ lsb_release -a
  No LSB modules are available.
  Distributor ID: Ubuntu
  Description:    Ubuntu 22.04.3 LTS
  Release:        22.04
  Codename:       jammy
  

• Python version:

  $ python -VV && python -c "import os; print('\n'.join([os.name, os.sys.platform]));"
  Python 3.10.12 (main, Nov 20 2023, 15:14:05) [GCC 11.4.0]
  posix
  linux
  

• pip version:

  $ pip -V
  pip 23.3.1 from /home/vbrozik/dev/asa-cp-conv/.venv/lib/python3.10/site-packages/pip (python 3.10)
  

• Terminal/Shell: (powershell, pwsh, Windows Terminal, WSL etc.)
  Windows Terminal, bash inside WSL2

Description

After the package is installed its executables are not available to be executed directly from CLI. The usual location $VIRTUAL_ENV/bin/ does not contain executable wrappers used to start the package's scripts.

Expected behavior

After the installation the directory $VIRTUAL_ENV/bin/ should contain a wrapper for every program (like pip-date) with the executable right set and without any suffixes.

Actual Behaviour:

The directory $VIRTUAL_ENV/bin/ directly contains the package's Python scripts like pip-date.py without the executable access right set and with the .py suffix instead of usual wrappers used to start the program the normal way.

How to Reproduce

1. Create a venv, activate it and update its default packages.
2. Install pip-date using pip.
3. Check that pip-date cannot be executed.
4. Check that the bin directory inside the venv does not contain wrappers for the package's scripts.

Output

~$ mkdir -p tmp/test_pip-date
~$ cd tmp/test_pip-date/
~/tmp/test_pip-date$ python3 -m venv venv
~/tmp/test_pip-date$ . venv/bin/activate
(venv) ~/tmp/test_pip-date$ pip install -U pip setuptools
Requirement already satisfied: pip in ./venv/lib/python3.10/site-packages (22.0.2)
...
Successfully installed pip-23.3.1 setuptools-69.0.2
(venv) ~/tmp/test_pip-date$ pip list
Package    Version
---------- -------
pip        23.3.1
setuptools 69.0.2

(venv) ~/tmp/test_pip-date$ pip install pip-date
Collecting pip-date
  Using cached pip_date-1.0.5-py3-none-any.whl (32 kB)
Collecting requests (from pip-date)
  Using cached requests-2.31.0-py3-none-any.whl.metadata (4.6 kB)
Collecting lxml (from pip-date)
  Using cached lxml-4.9.3-cp310-cp310-manylinux_2_28_x86_64.whl.metadata (3.8 kB)
Collecting charset-normalizer<4,>=2 (from requests->pip-date)
  Using cached charset_normalizer-3.3.2-cp310-cp310-manylinux_2_17_x86_64.manylinux2014_x86_64.whl.metadata (33 kB)
Collecting idna<4,>=2.5 (from requests->pip-date)
  Using cached idna-3.6-py3-none-any.whl.metadata (9.9 kB)
Collecting urllib3<3,>=1.21.1 (from requests->pip-date)
  Using cached urllib3-2.1.0-py3-none-any.whl.metadata (6.4 kB)
Collecting certifi>=2017.4.17 (from requests->pip-date)
  Using cached certifi-2023.11.17-py3-none-any.whl.metadata (2.2 kB)
Using cached lxml-4.9.3-cp310-cp310-manylinux_2_28_x86_64.whl (7.9 MB)
Using cached requests-2.31.0-py3-none-any.whl (62 kB)
Using cached certifi-2023.11.17-py3-none-any.whl (162 kB)
Using cached charset_normalizer-3.3.2-cp310-cp310-manylinux_2_17_x86_64.manylinux2014_x86_64.whl (142 kB)
Using cached idna-3.6-py3-none-any.whl (61 kB)
Using cached urllib3-2.1.0-py3-none-any.whl (104 kB)
Installing collected packages: urllib3, lxml, idna, charset-normalizer, certifi, requests, pip-date
Successfully installed certifi-2023.11.17 charset-normalizer-3.3.2 idna-3.6 lxml-4.9.3 pip-date-1.0.5 requests-2.31.0 urllib3-2.1.0

(venv) ~/tmp/test_pip-date$ echo $PATH
/home/vbrozik/tmp/test_pip-date/venv/bin:/home/vbrozik/.local/bin:/usr/local/sbin:...

(venv) ~/tmp/test_pip-date$ which pip-date
(venv) ~/tmp/test_pip-date$ echo $?
1
(venv) ~/tmp/test_pip-date$ pip-date
Command 'pip-date' not found, did you mean:
  command 'sip-date' from deb sofia-sip-bin (1.12.11+20110422.1-2.1+deb10u3ubuntu0.22.04.2)
Try: sudo apt install <deb name>

(venv) ~/tmp/test_pip-date$ ls -l /home/vbrozik/tmp/test_pip-date/venv/bin
total 100
-rw-r--r-- 1 vbrozik vbrozik  2003 Dec 12 10:02 activate
-rw-r--r-- 1 vbrozik vbrozik   929 Dec 12 10:02 activate.csh
-rw-r--r-- 1 vbrozik vbrozik  2209 Dec 12 10:02 activate.fish
-rw-r--r-- 1 vbrozik vbrozik  9033 Dec 12 10:02 Activate.ps1
-rwxr-xr-x 1 vbrozik vbrozik   265 Dec 12 10:03 normalizer
-rwxr-xr-x 1 vbrozik vbrozik   253 Dec 12 10:03 pip
-rwxr-xr-x 1 vbrozik vbrozik   253 Dec 12 10:03 pip3
-rwxr-xr-x 1 vbrozik vbrozik   253 Dec 12 10:03 pip3.10
-rwxr-xr-x 1 vbrozik vbrozik   253 Dec 12 10:03 pip3.11
-rw-r--r-- 1 vbrozik vbrozik  2362 Dec 12 10:03 pipbyday.py
-rw-r--r-- 1 vbrozik vbrozik 20808 Dec 12 10:03 pip-date.py
-rw-r--r-- 1 vbrozik vbrozik  2029 Dec 12 10:03 pip-describe.py
-rw-r--r-- 1 vbrozik vbrozik  6622 Dec 12 10:03 pip-search.py
drwxr-xr-x 2 vbrozik vbrozik  4096 Dec 12 10:03 __pycache__
-rw-r--r-- 1 vbrozik vbrozik  4866 Dec 12 10:03 pyfileinfo.py
-rw-r--r-- 1 vbrozik vbrozik  3432 Dec 12 10:03 pyOSinfo.py
lrwxrwxrwx 1 vbrozik vbrozik     7 Dec 12 10:02 python -> python3
lrwxrwxrwx 1 vbrozik vbrozik    16 Dec 12 10:02 python3 -> /usr/bin/python3
lrwxrwxrwx 1 vbrozik vbrozik     7 Dec 12 10:02 python3.10 -> python3

[truebit]

You could use python /home/vbrozik/tmp/test_pip-date/venv/bin/pip-date.py to make a workaround