ffumero2003 · Nov 5, 2026 · Nov 4, 2026
diff --git a/changelog.d/640.infrastructure.md b/changelog.d/640.infrastructure.md
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+Updated Starlette, AnyIO, and virtualenv in the development tooling. Setuptools remains below 81 for liccheck compatibility and requires a dev-only dismissal; filelock and tornado retain Python 3.10-compatible dev-only locks.
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ lint = [
     "pytest>=9.0.3,<10",
     "tenacity>=9.1.4,<10",
     "liccheck==0.9.2",
-    "setuptools",
+    "setuptools<81",  # liccheck 0.9.2 imports pkg_resources, removed in setuptools 81
 ]
 test = [
     "pip>=26.2.2",
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		Updated Starlette, AnyIO, and virtualenv in the development tooling. Setuptools remains below 81 for liccheck compatibility and requires a dev-only dismissal; filelock and tornado retain Python 3.10-compatible dev-only locks.