[Debian-pan-maintainers] Bug#1100256: python-agilent: FTBFS: pyproject_hooks._impl.BackendUnavailable: Cannot import 'setuptools.build_meta'

[Santiago Vila]

Package: src:python-agilent
Version: 0.4.6-1
Severity: serious
Tags: ftbfs trixie sid

Dear maintainer:

During a rebuild of all packages in unstable, your package failed to build:

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[...]
 debian/rules clean
dh clean --buildsystem=pybuild
   dh_auto_clean -O--buildsystem=pybuild
   dh_autoreconf_clean -O--buildsystem=pybuild
   dh_clean -O--buildsystem=pybuild
 debian/rules binary
dh binary --buildsystem=pybuild
   dh_update_autotools_config -O--buildsystem=pybuild
   dh_autoreconf -O--buildsystem=pybuild
   dh_auto_configure -O--buildsystem=pybuild
   dh_auto_build -O--buildsystem=pybuild
I: pybuild plugin_pyproject:129: Building wheel for python3.13 with "build" module
I: pybuild base:311: python3.13 -m build --skip-dependency-check --no-isolation --wheel --outdir /<<PKGBUILDDIR>>/.pybuild/cpython3_3.13_agilent_format  
* Building wheel...

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/pyproject_hooks/_impl.py", line 402, in _call_hook
    raise BackendUnavailable(
    ...<4 lines>...
    )
pyproject_hooks._impl.BackendUnavailable: Cannot import 'setuptools.build_meta'

ERROR Backend 'setuptools.build_meta' is not available.
E: pybuild pybuild:389: build: plugin pyproject failed with: exit code=1: python3.13 -m build --skip-dependency-check --no-isolation --wheel --outdir /<<PKGBUILDDIR>>/.pybuild/cpython3_3.13_agilent_format  
dh_auto_build: error: pybuild --build -i python{version} -p 3.13 returned exit code 13
make: *** [debian/rules:7: binary] Error 25
dpkg-buildpackage: error: debian/rules binary subprocess returned exit status 2
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The above is just how the build ends and not necessarily the most relevant part.
If required, the full build log is available here:

https://people.debian.org/~sanvila/build-logs/202503/

About the archive rebuild: The build was made on virtual machines from AWS,
using sbuild and a reduced chroot with only build-essential packages.

If you could not reproduce the bug please contact me privately, as I
am willing to provide ssh access to a virtual machine where the bug is
fully reproducible.

If this is really a bug in one of the build-depends, please use
reassign and add an affects on src:python-agilent, so that this is still
visible in the BTS web page for this package.

Thanks.