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My version is: '67.6.1'

@kayprish hmm this is curious, as far as I can tell the error message is coming from setuptools, what version of setuptools do you have installed?

I've tried uninstalling all of my user packages and then installing pypdf3 and it's still failing, so I assume it's not that

@hv15 hi, this is my pip list:

Package            Version
------------------ -----------
asttokens          2.2.1
backcall           0.2.0
boto3              1.26.89
botocore           1.29.89
capstone           5.0.0rc2
certifi            2022.12.7
charset-normalizer 3.1.0
colored-traceback  0.3.0
decorator          5.1.1
exceptiongroup     1.1.0
executing          1.2.0
idna               3.4
iniconfig          2.0.0
intervaltree       3.1.0
ipython            8.11.0
jedi               0.18.2
jmespath           1.0.1
jwt                1.3.1
Mako               1.2.4
MarkupSafe         2.1.2
matplotlib-inline  0.1.6
Naked              0.1.32
paramiko           3.1.0
parso              0.8.3
pexpect            4.8.0
pickleshare        0.7.5
pluggy             1.0.0
plumbum            1.8.1
prompt-toolkit     3.0.38
psutil             5.9.4
ptyprocess         0.7.0
pure-eval          0.2.2
pyasn1             0.4.8
pycryptodome       3.17
pyelftools         0.29
Pygments           2.14.0
pygore             0.5.0
PyNaCl             1.5.0
pyserial           3.5
PySocks            1.7.1
pytest             7.2.2
python-dateutil    2.8.2
PyYAML             6.0
QDarkStyle         3.1
QtPy               2.3.0
requests           2.28.2
ROPGadget          7.3
rpyc               5.3.1
s3transfer         0.6.0
shellescape        3.8.1
six                1.16.0
sortedcontainers   2.4.0
stack-data         0.6.2
tabulate           0.9.0
traitlets          5.9.0
unicorn            2.0.1.post1
urllib3            1.26.15
wcwidth            0.2.6

@kayprish I can build in a clean chroot fine (using python 3.10), could you give a list of locally installed pip packages: pip list --user I suspect there is some conflict coming from there.

For me, the package won't build, it generates the following error:

python-pypdf3-1.0.6-4: parsing pkg list...
==> Making package: python-pypdf3 1.0.6-4 (Mon 10 Apr 2023 12:38:59 PM CEST)
==> Checking runtime dependencies...
==> Checking buildtime dependencies...
==> WARNING: Using existing $srcdir/ tree
==> Removing existing $pkgdir/ directory...
==> Starting build()...
* Getting build dependencies for wheel...
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/pyproject_hooks/_in_process/_in_process.py", line 353, in <module>
    main()
  File "/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/pyproject_hooks/_in_process/_in_process.py", line 335, in main
    json_out['return_val'] = hook(**hook_input['kwargs'])
  File "/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/pyproject_hooks/_in_process/_in_process.py", line 118, in get_requires_for_build_wheel
    return hook(config_settings)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/setuptools/build_meta.py", line 338, in get_requires_for_build_wheel
    return self._get_build_requires(config_settings, requirements=['wheel'])
  File "/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/setuptools/build_meta.py", line 320, in _get_build_requires
    self.run_setup()
  File "/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/setuptools/build_meta.py", line 484, in run_setup
    super(_BuildMetaLegacyBackend,
  File "/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/setuptools/build_meta.py", line 335, in run_setup
    exec(code, locals())
  File "<string>", line 32, in <module>
  File "/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/setuptools/_distutils/core.py", line 147, in setup
    _setup_distribution = dist = klass(attrs)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/setuptools/dist.py", line 486, in __init__
    for ep in metadata.entry_points(group='distutils.setup_keywords'):
  File "/usr/lib/python3.10/importlib/metadata/__init__.py", line 1021, in entry_points
    return SelectableGroups.load(eps).select(**params)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.10/importlib/metadata/__init__.py", line 459, in load
    ordered = sorted(eps, key=by_group)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.10/importlib/metadata/__init__.py", line 1018, in <genexpr>
    eps = itertools.chain.from_iterable(
  File "/usr/lib/python3.10/importlib/metadata/_itertools.py", line 16, in unique_everseen
    k = key(element)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.10/importlib/metadata/__init__.py", line 943, in _normalized_name
    or super()._normalized_name
  File "/usr/lib/python3.10/importlib/metadata/__init__.py", line 622, in _normalized_name
    return Prepared.normalize(self.name)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.10/importlib/metadata/__init__.py", line 871, in normalize
    return re.sub(r"[-_.]+", "-", name).lower().replace('-', '_')
  File "/usr/lib/python3.10/re.py", line 209, in sub
    return _compile(pattern, flags).sub(repl, string, count)
TypeError: expected string or bytes-like object

ERROR Backend subprocess exited when trying to invoke get_requires_for_build_wheel
==> ERROR: A failure occurred in build().
    Aborting...
error: failed to build 'python-pypdf3-1.0.6-4': 
error: packages failed to build: python-pypdf3-1.0.6-4

I assume something has changed about python 3.10, which makes the old setup code invalid.

@kernelisstrong awesome, I was really confused there for a moment :P

It seems that it was picking the user's setuptools and not the system one. Fixed it. Sorry for reporting this.

I got the one in the official repos. 67.4.0-1

@kernelisstrong hmm the log message seems to indicate that the version of setuptools you have is too old, what version do you have installed?