setup.py breaks with setuptools>=82: No module named 'pkg_resources'

[xwang233]

setuptools 82.0.0 (released 2026-02-08) removed pkg_resources, which breaks building torchvision from source:

  File "<string>", line 14, in <module>
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'pkg_resources'

The import is at

vision/setup.py

Line 14 in 6940e19

from pkg_resources import DistributionNotFound, get_distribution, parse_version