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@woodruffw woodruffw commented Feb 10, 2026

pkg_resources is no longer provided by setuptools, so this link is dead (and breaks the build). I've removed the link but kept the term itself, along with a mention of the removal.

Ref: https://discuss.python.org/t/pkg-resources-removal-how-to-go-from-there/106079


📚 Documentation preview 📚: https://python-packaging-user-guide--2002.org.readthedocs.build/en/2002/

Signed-off-by: William Woodruff <william@astral.sh>
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CC @pypa/packaging-user-guide-editors

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It's linked to in other places unfortunately:

Refer to the `pkg_resources documentation
<https://setuptools.readthedocs.io/en/latest/pkg_resources.html#workingset-objects>`__
for more details.

.. _pkg_resources.declare_namespace:
https://setuptools.readthedocs.io/en/latest/pkg_resources.html#namespace-package-support

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It's linked to in other places unfortunately:

Grumble, thanks 🙂

Signed-off-by: William Woodruff <william@astral.sh>
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