Make sure to not use setuptools>=71.

src/pip_deepfreeze/sanity.py

@@ -102,15 +102,15 @@
         or (
             # pip not installed in target python env and local pip is not compatible
             # with target python, so we'll need pkg_resources to inspect with
-            # env-info-json.py
+            # pip-list-json.py
             not pip_version and not local_pip_compatible(python)
         )
     ):
         setuptools_install_cmd = shlex.join(
-            [python, "-m", "pip", "install", "setuptools"]
+            [python, "-m", "pip", "install", "setuptools<71"]
         )
         pip_upgrade_cmd = shlex.join(
-            [python, "-m", "pip", "install", "--upgrade", "pip"]
+            [python, "-m", "pip", "install", "--upgrade", "pip>=22.2"]
         )
         log_error(
             f"pkg_resources is not available to {python}. It is currently "
@@ -119,6 +119,30 @@
             f"installs pkg_resources with '{setuptools_install_cmd}'."
         )
         return False
+    setuptools_version = env_info.get("setuptools_version")
+    if (
+        setuptools_version
+        and Version(setuptools_version) >= Version("71")
+        and pip_version
+        and Version(pip_version) < Version("22.2")
+    ):
+        # In setuptools>=71, pkg_resources.working_set reports setuptools'
+        # vendored dependencies, so we can't rely on it to inspect the
+        # environment.
+        # https://github.com/pypa/setuptools/issues/4516
+        setuptools_downgrade_cmd = shlex.join(
+            [python, "-m", "pip", "install", "setuptools<71"]
+        )
+        pip_upgrade_cmd = shlex.join(
+            [python, "-m", "pip", "install", "--upgrade", "pip>=22.2"]
+        )
+        log_error(
+            f"setuptools>=71 has a version of pkg_resources that cannot be "
+            f"used to reliably inspect the environment. You need to downgrade "
+            f"setuptools with '{setuptools_downgrade_cmd}' or upgrade pip with "
+            f"'{pip_upgrade_cmd}'."
+        )
+        return False
     # Testing for pip must be done after testing for pkg_resources, because
     # pkg_resources is needed to obtain the pip version for python < 3.8.
     if not pip_version and not local_pip_compatible(python):

tests/conftest.py

@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ def virtualenv_python(tmp_path, testpkgs):
             testpkgs,
             "-U",
             "pip",
-            "setuptools",
+            "setuptools<71",  # https://github.com/pypa/setuptools/issues/4516
             "wheel",
         ]
     )
@@ -91,7 +91,7 @@ def testpkgs(tmp_path_factory):
             "-m",
             "pip",
             "wheel",
-            "setuptools",
+            "setuptools<71",  # https://github.com/pypa/setuptools/issues/4516
             "wheel",
             "--wheel-dir",
             str(testpkgs_dir),

tests/test_pip.py

@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 import subprocess
+import sys
 import textwrap
 from typing import Iterable, Iterator
 
@@ -378,7 +379,18 @@ def test_pip_upgrade_vcs_url(
 
 
 @pytest.mark.parametrize(
-    "pip_list_function", (_pip_list__env_info_json, _pip_list__pip_inspect, pip_list)
+    "pip_list_function",
+    (
+        pytest.param(
+            _pip_list__env_info_json,
+            marks=pytest.mark.skipif(
+                sys.version_info >= (3, 12),
+                reason="All pip versions that support Python 3.12 have pip inspect",
+            ),
+        ),
+        _pip_list__pip_inspect,
+        pip_list,
+    ),
 )
 def test_pip_list(virtualenv_python, testpkgs, pip_list_function):
     subprocess.check_call(

tox.ini

@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ python =
 extras = test
 usedevelop = true
 commands =
-  pytest -n auto --cov --cov-branch --cov-report=xml --cov-report=html --cov-report=term {posargs}
+  pytest -vv -n auto --cov --cov-branch --cov-report=xml --cov-report=html --cov-report=term {posargs}
 
 [testenv:py27]
 # run only helper scripts tests on python 2