On Sun, Aug 23, 2026 at 11:20:50AM +1000, Ben Finney wrote:
> Package: python3-click-man
> Version: 0.4.2-0.1
> Severity: important
>
> 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
