[Pkg-salt-team] Bug#999590: pkg_resources.DistributionNotFound: The 'contextvars' distribution was not found and is required by salt

[Benjamin Drung]

Am Montag, dem 15.11.2021 um 13:25 -0500 schrieb David Mandelberg:
> Op 15-11-2021 om 10:41 schreef Benjamin Drung:> I cannot reproduce this
> issue on unstable, since Python 3.9 provides
> > the contextvars module. What setup do you have and what Python
> > version?
> 
> I'm on Debian testing, also with Python 3.9 (see version report below).
> If I understand the issue correctly, it doesn't matter that contextvars
> is available in the standard library, what's happening is that 
> pkg_resources (not the import statement) can't find contextvars. E.g., 
> https://github.com/openbsd/ports/commit/77ea7ea5dec0623f9a1ad27334f9beb541c90478
>  
> and 
> https://github.com/void-linux/void-packages/pull/33331/commits/41f280427ced6bc986ca861852d9d6435f05cb1c
>  
> seem to just remove the requirement for the contextvars package, rather
> than adding a dependency on it.
> 
> Would you mind running this command? I wonder if you installed 
> contextvars from pip or something a while ago?
> 
> $ python3 -c 'import pkg_resources; 
> print(pkg_resources.require("contextvars"))'
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>    File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
>    File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py",
> line 
> 886, in require
>      needed = self.resolve(parse_requirements(requirements))
>    File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py",
> line 
> 772, in resolve
>      raise DistributionNotFound(req, requirers)
> pkg_resources.DistributionNotFound: The 'contextvars' distribution was 
> not found and is required by the application

I can reproduce the failure of this command above (on testing and
unstable), but the salt-call still works on my machine. Anyway, since
this a bug, I reported it upstream [1] and will fix it with an upload.

[1] https://github.com/saltstack/salt/pull/61240

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