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@stefanor stefanor commented Nov 9, 2022

setuptools 60 uses its own bunlded version of distutils, by default. It injects this into sys.modules, at import time. So we need to make sure that it is imported, before anything else imports distutils, to ensure everything is using the same distutils version.

In this case, let's just remove distutils, entirely.

This change in setuptools is to prepare for Python 3.12, which will drop distutils.

setuptools 60 uses its own bunlded version of distutils, by default. It
injects this into sys.modules, at import time. So we need to make sure
that it is imported, before anything else imports distutils, to ensure
everything is using the same distutils version.

This change in setuptools is to prepare for Python 3.12, which will drop
distutils.
@stefanor stefanor changed the title Import setuptools before distutils Import setup from setuptools Nov 13, 2022
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stefanor commented Dec 1, 2022

FWIW, the underlying bug I was describing is https://bugs.debian.org/1025216 but this change is still a worthwhile cleanup, I think.

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