You already know that setuptools is installed here: https://github.com/curoverse/arvados/blob/master/sdk/python/setup.py#L11

Hi @graingert

Is this causing an actual problem for you or just a linting / style question? I believe the reason for this dependency is that:

• We use pkg_resources at runtime (which is part of setuptools)
• We build operating system packages (deb and rpm) which do not run setup.py at install time
• The OS packages need an explicit dependency on setuptools in order to import pkg_resources

That said, the setuptools dependency could be moved to the OS package build if it causes a concrete problem for pip install.

This causes a problem because we use pip-compile with --generate-hashes when we install the requirements.txt setuptools is considered a package without hashes defined

Thanks. I'll see what we can do.