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Epackage-installs-python-egg

The tag is present in Lintian version 2.104.244. That is the most recent version we know about.

Python eggs should not be installed, since the Debian package is supposed to do the required steps for installing the Python code.

The egg may contain pre-compiled Python bytecode or shared libraries.

Refer to Debian Python Policy section 3.7 for details.

Visibility: error

Check: languages/python

The following 2 source packages in the archive triggered the tag 2 times.

We found 2 overrides. The tag performed 0% of the time.