[lopuhin]

Crazy amount of breakage...

Here is a PR which reverts this: https://github.com/pypa/setuptools/pull/4911

Interesting that maintainers of setuptools still only postpone the depreciation date for a year, so we can probably expect more issues like this in the future.

[vanschelven]

After thousands of comments, they're now reconsidering: https://github.com/pypa/setuptools/issues/4921