Update dependency setuptools to v68 (!304) · Merge requests · Iron Bank Containers / Opensource / python / python39

This MR contains the following updates:

Package	Update	Change
setuptools (changelog)	major	`==67.8.0` -> `==68.0.0`

pypa/setuptools

Breaking Changes ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

#3948: Removed verification for existing depends.txt file (deprecated since v0.5a4).
#3948: Remove autofixing of broken .egg-info directories containing the - character in their base name (without suffix). They should no longer be produced by sufficiently new versions of setuptools (warning introduced in 2005).
#3948: Remove deprecated APIs in easy_install: get_script_args, get_script_header and get_writer. The direct usage of easy_install has been deprecated since v58.3.0, and the warnings regarding these APIs predate that version.
#3948: Removed egg_info.get_pkg_info_revision (deprecated since 2015).
#3948: Removed setuptools.dist._get_unpatched (deprecated since 2016)
#3948: Removed support for SVN in setuptools.package_index (deprecated since 2018).
#3948: Removed support for invalid pyproject.toml files. During the implementation of PEP 621, it was identified that some users were producing invalid files. As a transitional measure, the validation was relaxed for a few use cases. The grace period, however, came to an end.

Changes ^^^^^^^

#3760: Added symlink support to launcher for installed executables -- by :user:eugene-sevostianov-sc
#3926: Updated vendored packaging version from 23.0 to 23.1 -- by :user:MetRonnie
#3950: Implemented workaround for old versions of vswhere, which miss the -requiresAny parameter, such as the ones distributed together with Visual Studio 2017 < 15.6.
#3952: Changed DistutilsMetaFinder to skip spec_for_pip on Python >= 3.12.
#3952: Removed _distutils_hack.remove_shim on Python >= 3.12 (since distutils was removed from the standard library, DistutilsMetaFinder cannot be disabled on Python >= 3.12).

Misc ^^^^

#3920: Add a link to deprecation warning in pkg_resources and improve stacklevel for better visibility.

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Update dependency setuptools to v68