On Wed, Mar 11, 2026 at 11:05 AM Michael Tokarev <mjt@tls.msk.ru> wrote:
>
> From: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>
>
> pkg_resources has been fully dropped from modern pip/setuptools
> distributions and we should phase out its use. This patch is enough to,
> by itself, repair most GitLab CI tests upstream; with the exception of
> tox tests which are still making use of avocado - which will be dropped
> in a separate series to restore functionality there.
Hiya mjt - that separate series mentioned in this commit has now also
been merged and you may wish to consider it for stable inclusion. It's
a four patch python PR that adds Python 3.14 testing support and drops
avocado and it makes the optional check-python-tox GitLab CI test
green again.
--js
>
> Signed-off-by: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>
> Suggested-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
> Message-ID: <20260211195804.135144-3-jsnow@redhat.com>
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
> (cherry picked from commit e44a26ba940214824b61976324058e73d9f41658)
> Signed-off-by: Michael Tokarev <mjt@tls.msk.ru>
>
> diff --git a/python/setup.py b/python/setup.py
> index c5bc45919a..789fa39b0f 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):
> @@ -30,9 +29,6 @@ def main():
> QEMU tooling installer
> """
>
> - # https://medium.com/@daveshawley/safely-using-setup-cfg-for-metadata-1babbe54c108
> - pkg_resources.require('setuptools>=39.2')
> -
> setuptools.setup(cmdclass={'bdist_egg': bdist_egg_guard})
>
>
> --
> 2.47.3
>