[This bug is targeted to the upcoming trixie release]

The package build-depends or depends on python3-pkg-resources, which is
deprecated upstream. Details can be found at

https://setuptools.pypa.io/en/latest/pkg_resources.html

Use of pkg_resources is deprecated in favor of importlib.resources,
importlib.metadata and their backports (importlib_resources, importlib_metadata).
Some useful APIs are also provided by packaging (e.g. requirements and version
parsing). Users should refrain from new usage of pkg_resources and should work
to port to importlib-based solutions.

Python 3.12 in unstable provides both importlib_resources and
importlib_metadata, so no additional dependencies on those packages are needed.

While pkg_resources is indeed deprecated upstream, there's nothing that
we can sensibly do about it at the Debian level in lazr.* or zope.*, and
it's not even as clear as you might hope what to do upstream.  They all
do something like this in an __init__.py (with unimportant variations):

I don't want to force it.  the separation of this module into it's own
module is a Debian specific change to avoid runtime dependencies on
pkg_resources.  So you'll find a lot of hard-coded dependencies that are
just not used anymore. That's what I want to catch for the trixie release.

Matthias

We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
zope.deprecation, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive.

A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.

Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed.  If you
have further comments please address them to 1084009@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> (supplier of updated zope.deprecation package)

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Format: 1.8
Date: Mon, 09 Feb 2026 02:11:45 +0000
Source: zope.deprecation
Architecture: source
Version: 6.0-3
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Debian Python Team <team+python@tracker.debian.org>
Changed-By: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
Closes: 1084009
Changes:
 zope.deprecation (6.0-3) unstable; urgency=medium
 .
   * Remove run-time dependency on setuptools (closes: #1084009).
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