From: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>

pkg_resources has been dropped from setuptools v82.0 and newer,
so our setup.py script is currently failing there, breaking our CI.
To fix it, switch to a direct version check instead.
While we're at it, also bump the minimum version of setuptools
to v44 now since that is the minimum that might still be in use
on the distros we care about according to:
 https://repology.org/project/python%3Asetuptools/versions

Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
Message-ID: <20260211161154.740256-1-thuth@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
---
 python/setup.py | 5 ++---
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/python/setup.py b/python/setup.py
index c5bc45919a4..ae242ac95ac 100755
--- a/python/setup.py
+++ b/python/setup.py
@@ -7,7 +7,6 @@
 import setuptools
 from setuptools.command import bdist_egg
 import sys
-import pkg_resources
 
 
 class bdist_egg_guard(bdist_egg.bdist_egg):
@@ -30,8 +29,8 @@ def main():
     QEMU tooling installer
     """
 
-    # https://medium.com/@daveshawley/safely-using-setup-cfg-for-metadata-1babbe54c108
-    pkg_resources.require('setuptools>=39.2')
+    if int(setuptools.__version__.split('.')[0]) < 44:
+        raise ModuleNotFoundError('version of setuptools is too old')
 
     setuptools.setup(cmdclass={'bdist_egg': bdist_egg_guard})
 
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