[Bug 2008430] Re: Aptdaemon crashes when there are any non-PEP-440 packages on the system due to setuptools 66.x.x

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Title:
  Aptdaemon crashes when there are any non-PEP-440 packages on the
  system due to setuptools 66.x.x

Status in aptdaemon package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in setuptools package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in update-manager package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in aptdaemon source package in Lunar:
  Invalid
Status in setuptools source package in Lunar:
  Fix Committed
Status in update-manager source package in Lunar:
  Invalid

Bug description:
  [ Impact ]

  "Software Updater" stopped working, it shows message "You stopped the
  check for updates".

  update-manager.desktop[22442]: dbus.exceptions.DBusException:
  org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NoReply: Message recipient disconnected
  from message bus without replying

  Analysis shows that this is the result of aptdaemon crash when it
  tries to load plugins, and pkg_resources module refuses to parse non
  PEP-440 compliant Python package versions. There are many such python
  packages, one of them "devscripts", as shown in this log, but if I
  remove devscripts, it crashes on other packages.

  org.debian.apt[22501]:   File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 2679, in parsed_version
  org.debian.apt[22501]:     self._parsed_version = parse_version(self.version)
  org.debian.apt[22501]:                            ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  org.debian.apt[22501]:   File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/pkg_resources/_vendor/packaging/version.py", line 266, in __init__
  org.debian.apt[22501]:     raise InvalidVersion(f"Invalid version: '{version}'")
  org.debian.apt[22501]: pkg_resources.extern.packaging.version.InvalidVersion: Invalid version: '2.22.2ubuntu5'
  org.debian.apt[22501]: (package: devscripts)

  There is an upstream ticket against setuptools:
  https://github.com/pypa/setuptools/issues/3772

  [ Test Plan ]

  1. Perform all required updates using Software Updater.
  2. 'sudo apt install rmlint-gui'
  3. Reboot (without reboot the bug did not reproduce)
  4. Launch Software Updater: 'update-manager'
  5. It will crash, see logs (08:38:56) related to apt daemon.
  6. Upgrade the python3-pkg-resources
  7. reboot
  8. Launch Software Updater
  9. Success

  [ Where problems could occur ]

  Building Python projects could start failing since the code is part of
  setuptools.

  [ Other Info ]

  There is a main ticket for fixing those non-PEP-440 packages: bug
  #1991606

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 23.04
  Package: aptdaemon 1.1.1+bzr982-0ubuntu42
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.19.0-29.30-generic 5.19.17
  Uname: Linux 5.19.0-29-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.24.0-0ubuntu2
  Architecture: amd64
  CasperMD5CheckResult: unknown
  CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
  Date: Fri Feb 24 00:16:28 2023
  PackageArchitecture: all
  SourcePackage: aptdaemon
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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