pkg_resources deprecation warning

[artivis]

The recent 0.26.0 release has brought back the pkg_resources deprecation warning:

$ rosdep --help 1>/dev/null
/usr/bin/rosdep:6: DeprecationWarning: pkg_resources is deprecated as an API. See https://setuptools.pypa.io/en/latest/pkg_resources.html
  from pkg_resources import load_entry_point

This is the same issue as #982 .

@nuclearsandwich friendly ping.

[ros-discourse]

This issue has been mentioned on Open Robotics Discourse. There might be relevant details there:

https://discourse.ros.org/t/rosdep-for-pip-is-broken-on-jazzy/38981/17

[artivis]

Any update on this? It is blocking any snap packaging.

Note that the warning in itself isn't a problem, the issue is that rosdep returns an error code throwing off scripts.

Edit: rosdep isn't returning the error code itself unlike what I previously mentioned. Nonetheless this was an issue in snapcraft and it has been handled there directly: canonical/snapcraft#5615 .