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Re:Python setuptools v50 breaks pip installation on Debian/U... by ur-whale on Tuesday September 01, 2020 @09:06AM (#24341341)
and none of which work reliably
Re:Python setuptools v50 breaks pip installation on Debian/U... by mint2 on Tuesday September 01, 2020 @11:07AM (#24342593)
In fairness, many of these are open source and at least in the case of pip, for many years there was literally only two maintainers although now there a couple more. This is what I learned at one of the python conferences.

It’s odd how open source packages that big companies use can be reliant on so few people.

Edit: although checking the pip github, there more people committing so maybe I got something wrong, but there is far more activity starting around 2019.