No pkg_resources from setuptools 82

[theherk]

Since the February update for Setuptools 82, pkg_resources is no longer included. The most simple workaround at the moment is to install setuptools<82, but there is probably a better solution that can be handled by dependencies here.

[Mirochill]

I checked current develop / 1.15.2, and I don't see a direct pkg_resources import in the ecs-deploy source tree. The package entry point is declared through console_scripts as ecs = ecs_deploy.cli:ecs, and the runtime dependencies in setup.py are click, click-log, botocore, boto3, requests, and dictdiffer.

Could you add the exact traceback or command output that shows where pkg_resources is imported? That should distinguish whether this is a stale/generated console-script wrapper, a dependency import, or a path that still needs a source change here.

[theherk]

Oh right. I should have read more carefully. The issue actually needs fixed upstream. The import is from dictdiffer, which is a direct dependency. The warning I got was:

2026-05-13T10:04:24.1242021Z /opt/hostedtoolcache/Python/3.12.13/x64/lib/python3.12/site-packages/dictdiffer/__init__.py:15: UserWarning: pkg_resources is deprecated as an API. See https://setuptools.pypa.io/en/latest/pkg_resources.html. The pkg_resources package is slated for removal as early as 2025-11-30. Refrain from using this package or pin to Setuptools<81.
2026-05-13T10:04:24.1243973Z   import pkg_resources

Don't know if you want to keep this open until that issue is cleared, but it looks like you're already aware of this in inveniosoftware/dictdiffer#193

[Mirochill]

Thanks, that traceback points cleanly to dictdiffer, not to an ecs-deploy source import. I don't see an ecs-deploy patch to make from this path; the remaining source fix looks to be upstream in dictdiffer, with this issue useful here only if the maintainers want to track the dependency update/release.