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pkg_resource deprecated #286

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setuptools 67 deprecated pkg_resource, and in 82 it was removed, leading to:

* Building wheel...
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/opt/pkg/lib/python3.11/site-packages/pyproject_hooks/_in_process/_in_process.py", line 389, in <module>
    main()
  File "/opt/pkg/lib/python3.11/site-packages/pyproject_hooks/_in_process/_in_process.py", line 373, in main
    json_out["return_val"] = hook(**hook_input["kwargs"])
                             ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/opt/pkg/lib/python3.11/site-packages/pyproject_hooks/_in_process/_in_process.py", line 280, in build_wheel
    return _build_backend().build_wheel(
           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/opt/pkg/lib/python3.11/site-packages/setuptools/build_meta.py", line 438, in build_wheel
    return _build(['bdist_wheel'])
           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/opt/pkg/lib/python3.11/site-packages/setuptools/build_meta.py", line 429, in _build
    return self._build_with_temp_dir(
           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/opt/pkg/lib/python3.11/site-packages/setuptools/build_meta.py", line 410, in _build_with_temp_dir
    self.run_setup()
  File "/opt/pkg/lib/python3.11/site-packages/setuptools/build_meta.py", line 520, in run_setup
    super().run_setup(setup_script=setup_script)
  File "/opt/pkg/lib/python3.11/site-packages/setuptools/build_meta.py", line 317, in run_setup
    exec(code, locals())
  File "<string>", line 3, in <module>
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'pkg_resources'

when trying to build it.

Workaround:

--- setup.py.orig       2026-02-17 15:06:10.418245753 +0000
+++ setup.py
@@ -1,12 +1,9 @@
 # Distutils script for python-xlib

-from pkg_resources import parse_requirements
 from setuptools import (__version__ as setuptools_version, setup)


 # Check setuptools is recent enough to support `setup.cfg`.
-setuptools_require = next(parse_requirements('setuptools>=30.3.0'))
-assert setuptools_version in setuptools_require, '{} is required'.format(setuptools_require)


 setup(

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