Do not use a too new setuptools. The correct fix would be to pin dependencies, but that is a bigger change.

Author: mikaelfrykholm

pyproject.toml

@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ dependencies = [
     "requests>=2.32.3",
     "requests-cache>=1.2.1",
     "requests-file>=2.1.0",
-    "setuptools>=78.1.1",
+    "setuptools>=78.1.1,<81",
     "str2bool>=1.1",
     "whoosh>=2.7.4",
     "wsgi-intercept>=1.13.1",