Incompatible with virtualenv

So I think this bug is a duplicate of Bug #988471, and in opposition to Bug #996559.

I have one set of users asking for Byobu's python scripts to use "#!/usr/bin/env python", and another group asking for it to be "#!/usr/bin/python".

What's the right answer? I don't know... I haven't encountered a real problem in any production environment yet for either....

This bug is a duplicate of #988471. Sorry for not checking for other byobu bugs, but launchpad did search for possible duplicates and showed me something that wasn't even close, so I figured I was first.

The user who has Python only in /usr/local has installed the Ubuntu Byobu package without the required dependencies. I'm not sure why they think the Byobu package should cope with this.

I think it's safe to say that software that gets installed and used is also going to be abuse. It's the software maintainer's job to ensure that the software can survive that abuse, but inevitably there are limits. Using virtualenv to create a preferred (and unexpected) python can be considered abuse. Failing to install required prerequisites is also abuse. For some software, setting strange locales in the environment might be considered abuse. You have to make a decision about what sort of abuse this package can withstand and I don't think many software maintainers are interested in making their software work in the face of missing prerequisites.

Committed revision 2232.

This bug was fixed in the package byobu - 5.62-0ubuntu1

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byobu (5.62-0ubuntu1) trusty; urgency=low

  * usr/share/byobu/keybindings/f-keys.tmux:
    - as it turns out, showing the current window name when renaming
      is really annoying
  * usr/bin/byobu-janitor, usr/lib/byobu/menu,
    usr/share/byobu/profiles/screenrc: LP: #1244509
    - customizations of screen configuration should go in
      $BYOBU_CONFIG_DIR/.screenrc, which will be sourced last; rather than
      ~/.screenrc (which should be reserved for screen-without-byobu)
  * usr/bin/byobu-reconnect-sockets, usr/bin/byobu-select-session:
    - LP: #1243017
    - add a few environment variables to restore, including upstart
      to ensure upstart commands resume working in a session restart
  * README, usr/bin/byobu-config, usr/bin/byobu-select-session,
    usr/lib/byobu/include/ec2instancespricing.py:
    - LP: #996559, LP: #988471, LP: #1237071
    - Okay, this is the last time I'm going back and forth on this;
      for real ;-)
    - In our 3 python scripts, we are going to use #!/usr/bin/python
      + The vast majority of Byobu users are getting it from their
        distro, and the package itself appropriately depends on python
    - Advanced users, developers, and others who want to run a different
      python in their environment will need to sed update three scripts
    - I've left a hint in the README to that effect
 -- Dustin Kirkland <email address hidden> Fri, 18 Oct 2013 16:29:56 -0500