ImportError: cannot import name 'appdirs' from 'pkg_resources.extern' in RISCV64

[cristobal-ortega]

Hello,

I'm trying to install lintrunner with pip in a RISCV but I get the following error:

$ pip install lintrunner
Collecting lintrunner
  Using cached lintrunner-0.12.5.tar.gz (62 kB)
  Installing build dependencies ... error
  error: subprocess-exited-with-error
[...]
File "/tmp/pip-build-env-im5_kq1b/overlay/lib/python3.12/site-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 74, in <module>
          from pkg_resources.extern import appdirs
      ImportError: cannot import name 'appdirs' from 'pkg_resources.extern' (/tmp/pip-build-env-im5_kq1b/overlay/lib/python3.12/site-packages/pkg_resources/extern/__init__.py)

pkg_resources is provided by setuptools, and setuptools and appdirs packages are installed in my virtual env:

$ pip list
Package      Version
------------ -------
appdirs      1.4.4
pip          24.0
platformdirs 4.3.6
setuptools   69.5.1

Just in case, I also installed the system-wide package provided through repos:

$ apt search appdirs
Sorting... Done
Full Text Search... Done
python3-appdirs/noble,now 1.4.4-4 all [installed]

Running python 3.12.3 in Ubuntu 24-04.1 architecture RISCV64.

Wondering if this is due to appdirs being deprecated: ActiveState/appdirs@8734277