Full cleanup of pkg_resources (#9797)

Fixes #9606

This PRs removes some elements that were related to pkg_resources dependency and its deprecation.

.pylintrc

@@ -524,7 +524,7 @@ ignored-classes=optparse.Values,thread._local,_thread._local,argparse.Namespace,
 # List of module names for which member attributes should not be checked
 # (useful for modules/projects where namespaces are manipulated during runtime
 # and thus existing member attributes cannot be deduced by static analysis
-ignored-modules=pkg_resources,confargparse,argparse
+ignored-modules=confargparse,argparse
 
 # Show a hint with possible names when a member name was not found. The aspect
 # of finding the hint is based on edit distance.

certbot-dns-gehirn/certbot_dns_gehirn/_internal/tests/dns_gehirn_test.py

@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
 """Tests for certbot_dns_gehirn._internal.dns_gehirn."""
 
 import sys
-import unittest
 from unittest import mock
 
 import pytest

certbot-dns-ovh/certbot_dns_ovh/_internal/tests/dns_ovh_test.py

@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@ class AuthenticatorTest(test_util.TempDirTestCase,
 
     DOMAIN_NOT_FOUND = Exception('Domain example.com not found')
     LOGIN_ERROR = HTTPError('403 Client Error: Forbidden for url: https://eu.api.ovh.com/1.0/...', response=Response())
+    
     def setUp(self):
         super().setUp()
 

certbot/docs/contributing.rst

@@ -328,8 +328,8 @@ Writing your own plugin
     for one example of that.
 
 Certbot client supports dynamic discovery of plugins through the
-`setuptools entry points`_ using the `certbot.plugins` group. This
-way you can, for example, create a custom implementation of
+`importlib.metadata entry points`_ using the `certbot.plugins` group.
+This way you can, for example, create a custom implementation of
 `~certbot.interfaces.Authenticator` or the
 `~certbot.interfaces.Installer` without having to merge it
 with the core upstream source code. An example is provided in
@@ -352,8 +352,8 @@ users install it system-wide with `pip install`. Note that this will
 only work for users who have Certbot installed from OS packages or via
 pip.
 
-.. _`setuptools entry points`:
-    https://setuptools.readthedocs.io/en/latest/pkg_resources.html#entry-points
+.. _`importlib.metadata entry points`:
+    https://importlib-metadata.readthedocs.io/en/latest/using.html#entry-points
 
 Writing your own plugin snap
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

pytest.ini

@@ -21,13 +21,7 @@
 #    updated.
 # 4) Ignore our own PendingDeprecationWarning about update_symlinks soon to be dropped.
 #    See https://github.com/certbot/certbot/issues/6284.
-# 5) Ignore pkg_resources.declare_namespace used in a large number of Google's Python
-#    libs. e.g. https://github.com/googleapis/google-auth-library-python/issues/1229.
-#    It is also is used in sphinxcontrib-devhelp 1.0.2 which as of writing this
-#    is the latest version of that library. See
-#    https://github.com/sphinx-doc/sphinxcontrib-devhelp/blob/1.0.2/setup.py#L69.
-# 6) Ignore DeprecationWarning from using pkg_resources API
-# 7) Ignore DeprecationWarning for datetime.utcfromtimestamp() triggered
+# 5) Ignore DeprecationWarning for datetime.utcfromtimestamp() triggered
 #    when importing the pytz.tzinfo module
 #    https://github.com/stub42/pytz/issues/105
 filterwarnings =
@@ -36,6 +30,4 @@ filterwarnings =
     ignore:.*rsyncdir:DeprecationWarning
     ignore:'urllib3.contrib.pyopenssl:DeprecationWarning:requests_toolbelt
     ignore:update_symlinks is deprecated:PendingDeprecationWarning
-    ignore:.*declare_namespace\(':DeprecationWarning
-    ignore:pkg_resources is deprecated as an API:DeprecationWarning
     ignore:.*datetime.utcfromtimestamp\(\) is deprecated:DeprecationWarning:pytz.tzinfo

tools/pinning/current/pyproject.toml

@@ -70,11 +70,6 @@ cryptography = "!= 37.0.3"
 # https://github.com/python-poetry/poetry-plugin-export/issues/168 is resolved.
 poetry = "<1.3.0"
 
-# setuptools 67.5.0 deprecated pkg_resources which we still use. Let's pin it
-# back until this is fixed. Doing this work is being tracked by
-# https://github.com/certbot/certbot/issues/9606.
-setuptools = "<67.5.0"
-
 # Branch 4.x of tox introduces backward incompatibility changes. The tox.ini
 # file in the project must be adapted accordingly before moving out of the 3.x
 # branch. Once done, the following constraint should become tox >= 4 to keep

tools/requirements.txt

@@ -147,7 +147,7 @@ s3transfer==0.7.0 ; python_version >= "3.8" and python_version < "4.0"
 secretstorage==3.3.3 ; python_version >= "3.8" and python_version < "4.0" and sys_platform == "linux"
 semantic-version==2.10.0 ; python_version >= "3.8" and python_version < "4.0"
 setuptools-rust==1.7.0 ; python_version >= "3.8" and python_version < "4.0"
-setuptools==67.4.0 ; python_version >= "3.8" and python_version < "4.0"
+setuptools==68.2.2 ; python_version >= "3.8" and python_version < "4.0"
 shellingham==1.5.3 ; python_version >= "3.8" and python_version < "4.0"
 six==1.16.0 ; python_version >= "3.8" and python_version < "4.0"
 snowballstemmer==2.2.0 ; python_version >= "3.8" and python_version < "4.0"