The program, when installed in a minimal environment and run, crashes:

=====
$ click-man --help
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/click-man", line 33, in <module>
    sys.exit(load_entry_point('click-man==0.4.2', 'console_scripts', 'click-man')())
             ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/usr/bin/click-man", line 25, in importlib_load_entry_point
    return next(matches).load()
           ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^
  File "/usr/lib/python3.14/importlib/metadata/__init__.py", line 179, in load
    module = import_module(match.group('module'))
  File "/usr/lib/python3.14/importlib/__init__.py", line 88, in import_module
    return _bootstrap._gcd_import(name[level:], package, level)
           ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 1406, in _gcd_import
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 1371, in _find_and_load
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 1342, in _find_and_load_unlocked
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 938, in _load_unlocked
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap_external>", line 759, in exec_module
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 491, in _call_with_frames_removed
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/click_man/__main__.py", line 14, in <module>
    from pkg_resources import iter_entry_points, get_distribution
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'pkg_resources'
=====

The installed Python library ‘click_man’ attempts to import ‘pkg_resources’
but that module is not installed.

This is because the ‘python3-click-man’ Debian binary package fails to
declare a dependency on ‘python3-pkg-resources’.

Per my understanding of things, click-man should stop using
pkg_resources going forward.

Chris

Hi,

Yes indeed both declared & undeclared dependencies on
python3-pkg-resources should be RC-buggy.

I propose to NMU the new version tomorrow.

I had a look at what's in github and it uses importlib.metadata

Greetings

Alexandre

Le dim. 23 août 2026 à 03:24, Chris Hofstaedtler <zeha@debian.org> a écrit :

Control: severity 1145127 serious

This reasoning appears to make bug#1145127 (another undeclared dependency)
also Severity: serious. I am altering that bug report accordingly.

I wonder whether we might wait for the maintainer (Ryan Pavlik, also on
this message) to package an upstream version that addresses this? See
bug#1145124 <URL: https://bugs.debian.org/1145124>.

Ryan, if that is not happening soon, you probably want to let Alexandre D.
know so that he can go ahead and perform the actions he proposed.

We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
click-man, 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 1145125@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Alexandre Detiste <tchet@debian.org> (supplier of updated click-man package)

(This message was generated automatically at their request; if you
believe that there is a problem with it please contact the archive
administrators by mailing ftpmaster@ftp-master.debian.org)
Format: 1.8
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2026 14:09:11 +0200
Source: click-man
Architecture: source
Version: 0.5.2-0.1
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Rylie Pavlik <rylie@ryliepavlik.com>
Changed-By: Alexandre Detiste <tchet@debian.org>
Closes: 1145124 1145125 1145127
Changes:
 click-man (0.5.2-0.1) unstable; urgency=medium
 .
   * Non-maintainer Upload
   * New upstream version 0.5.2 (Closes: #1145124, #1145125, #1145127)
   * Drop "Rules-Requires-Root: no": it is the default now
   * Bump Standards-Version to 4.7.4, drop Priority: tag
   * Rewrite d/watch in v5 format
 .
   [ Rylie Pavlik ]
   * New upstream version 0.5.0
   * Update Standards-Version to 4.7.0 (No changes required)
   * Remove patches: equivalent incorporated upstream.
   * Fix self-generation of manpages in new release.
   * Fix maintainer name.
   * Fix CME config file.
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