[SR-10591] Swift 5.0.1 docker images prevent Python install

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Previous ID	SR-10591
Radar	None
Original Reporter	djones6 (JIRA User)
Type	Bug

Additional Detail from JIRA

Votes	0
Component/s	Docker
Labels	Bug
Assignee	@shahmishal
Priority	Medium

md5: a34b15376617ac94bddd7d6b61f54b0b

Issue Description:

The latest swift:5.0.1 Docker images contain some Python modules in directory /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages - but Debian / Ubuntu expect them to be installed to /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages instead, and for site-packages to be a symlink to dist-packages.

If you try to install python, you currently get:

Preparing to unpack .../python2.7-minimal_2.7.15~rc1-1ubuntu0.1_amd64.deb ...
new installation of python2.7-minimal; /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages is a directory
which is expected a symlink to /usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages.
please find the package shipping files in /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages and
file a bug report to ship these in /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages instead
aborting installation of python2.7-minimal

A workaround is to move the contents of site-packages into dist-packages, and create the symlink, after which python will install happily.

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Comment by Ian Partridge (JIRA)

Duplicate of https://bugs.swift.org/browse/SR-10344