[tahoe-lafs-trac-stream] [Tahoe-LAFS] #2216: can't find module 'core.utils.dist' when installing

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#2216: can't find module 'core.utils.dist' when installing
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     Reporter:  aredridel  |      Owner:  daira
         Type:  defect     |     Status:  new
     Priority:  normal     |  Milestone:  undecided
    Component:  packaging  |    Version:  1.10.0
   Resolution:             |   Keywords:  setuptools error build
Launchpad Bug:             |
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Comment (by zooko):

 Aha. Here is a complaint about a similar-looking stack trace:
 https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-746228.html . In that
 fix/workaround, the problem seems to be coming from a package named
 "elisa".

 And here is a ticket that *we* opened and closed several years ago in
 which elisa was causing a *different* problem that also involved
 "core.utils.dist".

 So, aredridel: could you inspect whether you have a package named "elisa"
 installed on your system, and if you don't need it could you uninstall it
 and see if that changes the behavior? Also we should open a bug report
 about this for the maintainers of elisa and/or your operating system, if
 that turns out to be the problem.

 (And yes, it is really discouraging that in the current Python language
 and Python packaging tools, we cannot exclude the possibility that some
 random other package completely unrelated to ours is breaking our code in
 ways we cannot possibly hope to understand or prevent.)

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