Please remove the distro-info project.

[verhovsky]

https://pypi.org/project/distro-info/#history

distro-info is a Python tool used for upgrading Ubuntu. https://packages.ubuntu.com/groovy/distro-info

If you use the standard way of upgrading all pip dependencies (as far as I can tell, a bash command copy-pasted from stackoverflow https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2720014/how-to-upgrade-all-python-packages-with-pip is still the canonical way to do that) this causes pip to install distro-info which was uploaded to PyPI in 2013 and hasn't been used since which causes the Ubuntu do-release-upgrade command to break https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubuntu-release-upgrader/+bug/1874250

I haven't actually verified this is what causes do-release-upgrade to break, but when I do sudo pip3 list --outdated --format=freeze | grep -v '^\-e' | cut -d = -f 1 | xargs -n1 sudo pip3 install -U I see

$ sudo pip3 list --outdated --format=freeze | grep -v '^\-e' | cut -d = -f 1  | xargs -n1 sudo pip3 install -U
Processing /root/.cache/pip/wheels/70/41/44/7433bd9e251aed01842961adf793059948d1de98d25877c5b8/distro_info-0.0.0-py3-none-any.whl
Installing collected packages: distro-info
  Attempting uninstall: distro-info
    Found existing installation: distro-info 0.0.0
    Uninstalling distro-info-0.0.0:
      Successfully uninstalled distro-info-0.0.0
Successfully installed distro-info-0.0.0
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[pradyunsg]

If you use the standard way of upgrading all pip dependencies (as far as I can tell

As a pip maintainer, I suggest not using commands like that because they'll certainly break your environment in weird ways. There's a reason pip doesn't have a pip upgrade-all command, and it's due to complexities around doing it properly. None of the answers on that question are robust enough to not break things. :)

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IIUC, @paulproteus is the owner of that package -- perhaps they might have context to bring into this discussion.

[di]

I don't think users running unsupported workflows is grounds to remove what appears to be a legitimate package.

Furthermore, the distro-info project has gotten a new release as of Oct 2021, which might help with the breakage experienced here.