wheel: Latest wheel breaks with setuptools

Hi,

The latest wheel seems to break with setuptools in some weird and wonderful way. Downgrading to 0.38.1 seems to work fine.

:: Collecting pip<22.1
::   Downloading pip-22.0.4.tar.gz (2.1 MB)
::   Installing build dependencies: started
::   Installing build dependencies: finished with status 'error'
::   ERROR: Command errored out with exit status 1:
::    command: /root/snap/charmcraft/common/tmp3ttv087k/bin/python /root/snap/charmcraft/common/tmp3ttv087k/lib/python3.8/site-packages/pip install --ignore-installed --no-user --prefix /root/snap/charmcraft/common/pip-build-env-kzb85ngl/overlay --no-warn-script-location --no-binary :all: --only-binary :none: -i https://pypi.org/simple -- setuptools wheel
::        cwd: None
::   Complete output (71 lines):
::   Collecting setuptools
::     Downloading setuptools-65.5.1.tar.gz (2.6 MB)
::     Getting requirements to build wheel: started
::     Getting requirements to build wheel: finished with status 'done'
::     Installing backend dependencies: started
::     Installing backend dependencies: finished with status 'error'
::     ERROR: Command errored out with exit status 1:
::      command: /root/snap/charmcraft/common/tmp3ttv087k/bin/python /root/snap/charmcraft/common/tmp3ttv087k/lib/python3.8/site-packages/pip install --ignore-installed --no-user --prefix /root/snap/charmcraft/common/pip-build-env-plg_blo8/normal --no-warn-script-location --no-binary :all: --only-binary :none: -i https://pypi.org/simple -- wheel
::          cwd: None
::     Complete output (59 lines):
::     Collecting wheel
::       Downloading wheel-0.38.2.tar.gz (66 kB)
::         ERROR: Command errored out with exit status 1:
::          command: /root/snap/charmcraft/common/tmp3ttv087k/bin/python -c 'import sys, setuptools, tokenize; sys.argv[0] = '"'"'/root/snap/charmcraft/common/pip-install-h3frlauc/wheel/setup.py'"'"'; __file__='"'"'/root/snap/charmcraft/common/pip-install-h3frlauc/wheel/setup.py'"'"';f=getattr(tokenize, '"'"'open'"'"', open)(__file__);code=f.read().replace('"'"'\r\n'"'"', '"'"'\n'"'"');f.close();exec(compile(code, __file__, '"'"'exec'"'"'))' egg_info --egg-base /root/snap/charmcraft/common/pip-install-h3frlauc/wheel/pip-egg-info
::              cwd: /root/snap/charmcraft/common/pip-install-h3frlauc/wheel/
::         Complete output (51 lines):
::         running egg_info
::         creating /root/snap/charmcraft/common/pip-install-h3frlauc/wheel/pip-egg-info/wheel.egg-info
::         writing /root/snap/charmcraft/common/pip-install-h3frlauc/wheel/pip-egg-info/wheel.egg-info/PKG-INFO
::         writing dependency_links to /root/snap/charmcraft/common/pip-install-h3frlauc/wheel/pip-egg-info/wheel.egg-info/dependency_links.txt
::         writing entry points to /root/snap/charmcraft/common/pip-install-h3frlauc/wheel/pip-egg-info/wheel.egg-info/entry_points.txt
::         writing requirements to /root/snap/charmcraft/common/pip-install-h3frlauc/wheel/pip-egg-info/wheel.egg-info/requires.txt
::         writing top-level names to /root/snap/charmcraft/common/pip-install-h3frlauc/wheel/pip-egg-info/wheel.egg-info/top_level.txt
::         writing manifest file '/root/snap/charmcraft/common/pip-install-h3frlauc/wheel/pip-egg-info/wheel.egg-info/SOURCES.txt'
::         Traceback (most recent call last):
::           File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
::           File "/root/snap/charmcraft/common/pip-install-h3frlauc/wheel/setup.py", line 5, in <module>
::             setup()
::           File "/root/snap/charmcraft/common/tmp3ttv087k/lib/python3.8/site-packages/setuptools/__init__.py", line 145, in setup
::             return distutils.core.setup(**attrs)
::           File "/usr/lib/python3.8/distutils/core.py", line 148, in setup
::             dist.run_commands()
::           File "/usr/lib/python3.8/distutils/dist.py", line 966, in run_commands
::             self.run_command(cmd)
::           File "/usr/lib/python3.8/distutils/dist.py", line 985, in run_command
::             cmd_obj.run()
::           File "/root/snap/charmcraft/common/tmp3ttv087k/lib/python3.8/site-packages/setuptools/command/egg_info.py", line 296, in run
::             self.find_sources()
::           File "/root/snap/charmcraft/common/tmp3ttv087k/lib/python3.8/site-packages/setuptools/command/egg_info.py", line 303, in find_sources
::             mm.run()
::           File "/root/snap/charmcraft/common/tmp3ttv087k/lib/python3.8/site-packages/setuptools/command/egg_info.py", line 534, in run
::             self.add_defaults()
::           File "/root/snap/charmcraft/common/tmp3ttv087k/lib/python3.8/site-packages/setuptools/command/egg_info.py", line 570, in add_defaults
::             sdist.add_defaults(self)
::           File "/usr/lib/python3.8/distutils/command/sdist.py", line 226, in add_defaults
::             self._add_defaults_python()
::           File "/root/snap/charmcraft/common/tmp3ttv087k/lib/python3.8/site-packages/setuptools/command/sdist.py", line 135, in _add_defaults_python
::             build_py = self.get_finalized_command('build_py')
::           File "/usr/lib/python3.8/distutils/cmd.py", line 299, in get_finalized_command
::             cmd_obj.ensure_finalized()
::           File "/usr/lib/python3.8/distutils/cmd.py", line 107, in ensure_finalized
::             self.finalize_options()
::           File "/root/snap/charmcraft/common/tmp3ttv087k/lib/python3.8/site-packages/setuptools/command/build_py.py", line 34, in finalize_options
::             orig.build_py.finalize_options(self)
::           File "/usr/lib/python3.8/distutils/command/build_py.py", line 43, in finalize_options
::             self.set_undefined_options('build',
::           File "/usr/lib/python3.8/distutils/cmd.py", line 286, in set_undefined_options
::             src_cmd_obj = self.distribution.get_command_obj(src_cmd)
::           File "/usr/lib/python3.8/distutils/dist.py", line 857, in get_command_obj
::             klass = self.get_command_class(command)
::           File "/root/snap/charmcraft/common/tmp3ttv087k/lib/python3.8/site-packages/setuptools/dist.py", line 834, in get_command_class
::             self.cmdclass[command] = cmdclass = ep.load()
::           File "/root/snap/charmcraft/common/tmp3ttv087k/lib/python3.8/site-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 2443, in load
::             return self.resolve()
::           File "/root/snap/charmcraft/common/tmp3ttv087k/lib/python3.8/site-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 2449, in resolve
::             module = __import__(self.module_name, fromlist=['__name__'], level=0)
::         ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'setuptools.command.build'
::         ----------------------------------------
::     ERROR: Command errored out with exit status 1: python setup.py egg_info Check the logs for full command output.
::     ----------------------------------------
::   ERROR: Command errored out with exit status 1: /root/snap/charmcraft/common/tmp3ttv087k/bin/python /root/snap/charmcraft/common/tmp3ttv087k/lib/python3.8/site-packages/pip install --ignore-installed --no-user --prefix /root/snap/charmcraft/common/pip-build-env-plg_blo8/normal --no-warn-script-location --no-binary :all: --only-binary :none: -i https://pypi.org/simple -- wheel Check the logs for full command output.
::   ----------------------------------------
:: ERROR: Command errored out with exit status 1: /root/snap/charmcraft/common/tmp3ttv087k/bin/python /root/snap/charmcraft/common/tmp3ttv087k/lib/python3.8/site-packages/pip install --ignore-installed --no-user --prefix /root/snap/charmcraft/common/pip-build-env-kzb85ngl/overlay --no-warn-script-location --no-binary :all: --only-binary :none: -i https://pypi.org/simple -- setuptools wheel Check the logs for full command output.

Any ideas what’s going on?