Test failure: pip freeze no longer protects setuptools, distribute or wheel on Python 3.12+

[ncoghlan]

Some CI tests are failing due to this change in pip to no longer protect setuptools, distribute or wheel by default on Python 3.12+: pypa/pip@5dc65ea

That has been in the pip dev branch for a while, and was published in pip 24.1 in the past few days.

This change affects the pip-tools test suite by way of the PACKAGES_TO_IGNORE value, which reads the pip freeze internal API via

pip-tools/piptools/_compat/pip_compat.py

Line 101 in 5330964

Simplest CI fix would likely be to drop those packages from the affected test cases, since their handling depends on the versions of other components.

[ncoghlan]

The test_compile_recursive_extras_build_targets failure feels like it might be due to pypa/pip#12449 (pip used to inject wheel as an implicit build dependency for every setup.py project)

[chrysle]

Some CI tests are failing due to this change in pip to no longer protect setuptools, distribute or wheel by default on Python 3.12+: pypa/pip@5dc65ea

We don't test on 3.12+ yet, though...

[chrysle]

The test_compile_recursive_extras_build_targets failure feels like it might be due to pypa/pip#12449 (pip used to inject wheel as an implicit build dependency for every setup.py project)

True, I've opened a PR, but there are still the failing Windows tests... Could you look into them?

[ncoghlan]

We don't test on 3.12+ yet, though...

I hit this one locally when trying to reproduce the other CI failures. I didn't check if the GitHub CI was running 3.12.

[webknjaz]

The test_compile_recursive_extras_build_targets failure feels like it might be due to pypa/pip#12449 (pip used to inject wheel as an implicit build dependency for every setup.py project)

@ncoghlan no, apparently, this is because @agronholm moved wheel into setuptools during the sprints at PyCon US this spring. That failure actually led me to discovering a bug in the feature the failing test checks: #1681 (comment) / https://github.com/jazzband/pip-tools/pull/1681/files#r1667748889.

[ncoghlan]

Fixed the issue title to reflect that this isn't a CI issue (yet)

[ncoghlan]

From a windows testing point of view, I just ran tox -e piplatest locally, and the only reported failures were this (which I fixed by switching to my PR branch) and the wheel related failure that #2106 attempted to resolve.