Bug#1148938: datalad-next: FTBFS: ImportError: cannot import name 'DistutilsOptionError' from 'setuptools' (/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/setuptools/__init__.py)

Sun, 27 Sep 2026 04:11:25 -0700 

On Fri, Sep 25, 2026 at 12:18:54PM +0000, Santiago Vila wrote:

   from _datalad_buildsupport.setup import (
       BuildManPage,
   )
 File "/<<PKGBUILDDIR>>/_datalad_buildsupport/setup.py", line 16, in <module>
   from setuptools import Command, DistutilsOptionError
ImportError: cannot import name 'DistutilsOptionError' from 'setuptools' 
(/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/setuptools/__init__.py)



This is fixed in the latest upstream release (by switching to 
hatchling), but it looks as though we'll need to package 
https://pypi.org/project/datasalad/ first.


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Colin Watson (he/him)                              [[email protected]]























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