Revive it on Ubuntu 24.04

[cirosantilli]

On Ubuntu 24.04, with Poetry 1.8.2:

git clone https://github.com/hay/facetool
cd facetool
git checkout 3e296f7b177ebbcceb4b25f12f3327c3f6612f14
sudo apt install python3-poetry
poetry install

blows up:

Installing dependencies from lock file                                                                                                                                                        
                                                                                                                                                                                              
Could not parse version constraint: >=2011k

And then:

rm poetry.lock
poetry install

blows up:

Package operations: 45 installs, 0 updates, 0 removals                                                                                                                                        
                                                                                                                                                                                              
  - Installing numpy (1.19.5): Failed                                                                                                                                                         
                                                                                                                                                                                              
  ChefBuildError                                                                                                                                                                              
                                                                                                                                                                                              
  Backend 'setuptools.build_meta:__legacy__' is not available.                                                                                                                                
                                                                                                                                                                                              
  Traceback (most recent call last):                                                                                                                                                          
    File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/pyproject_hooks/_in_process/_in_process.py", line 77, in _build_backend                                                                              
      obj = import_module(mod_path)                                                                                                                                                           
            ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^                                                                                                                                                           
    File "/usr/lib/python3.12/importlib/__init__.py", line 90, in import_module                                                                                                               
      return _bootstrap._gcd_import(name[level:], package, level)                                                                                                                             
             ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^                                                                                                                             
    File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 1387, in _gcd_import                                                                                                                               File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 1360, in _find_and_load                                                                                                                        
    File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 1310, in _find_and_load_unlocked                                                                                                               
    File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 488, in _call_with_frames_removed                                                                                                              
    File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 1387, in _gcd_import                                                                                                                           
    File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 1360, in _find_and_load                                                                                                                        
    File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 1331, in _find_and_load_unlocked                                                                                                               
    File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 935, in _load_unlocked                                                                                                                         
    File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap_external>", line 995, in exec_module                    
    File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 488, in _call_with_frames_removed                                                                                                              
    File "/tmp/tmp6ehm3squ/.venv/lib/python3.12/site-packages/setuptools/__init__.py", line 9, in <module>
      import distutils.core                                                                                                                                                                   
  ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'distutils'                                                                                                                                            
                                                                                                                                                                                              
                                                                                               
  at /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/poetry/installation/chef.py:164 in _prepare
      160│ 
      161│                 error = ChefBuildError("\n\n".join(message_parts))
      162│ 
      163│             if error is not None:
    → 164│                 raise error from None
      165│ 
      166│             return path
      167│ 
      168│     def _prepare_sdist(self, archive: Path, destination: Path | None = None) -> Path:

It is likely that a dependency refresh would fix things, packages have become incompatible. Sad to see.