UserWarning: pkg_resources is deprecated as an API

[MmAtBosch]

Describe the bug

With the newest version of azure cli 2.74.0, our pipelines fail, as there is a warning printed to standard error:

Related command

az storage account show-connection-string --name "$saName" --resource-group "$saGroupName" -o tsv

Errors

/opt/az/lib/python3.12/site-packages/azure/multiapi/storagev2/fileshare/__init__.py:1: UserWarning: pkg_resources is deprecated as an API. See https://setuptools.pypa.io/en/latest/pkg_resources.html. The pkg_resources package is slated for removal as early as 2025-11-30. Refrain from using this package or pin to Setuptools<81.

Issue script & Debug output

/opt/az/lib/python3.12/site-packages/azure/multiapi/storagev2/fileshare/init.py:1: UserWarning: pkg_resources is deprecated as an API. See https://setuptools.pypa.io/en/latest/pkg_resources.html. The pkg_resources package is slated for removal as early as 2025-11-30. Refrain from using this package or pin to Setuptools<81.
import('pkg_resources').declare_namespace(name)
##[debug]Agent environment resources - Disk: / Available 106948.53 MB out of 148675.55 MB, Memory: Used 2788.00 MB out of 15990.00 MB, CPU: Usage 28.51%
Storage connection string successfully retrieved, saving it to keyvault
##[debug]Agent environment resources - Disk: / Available 106948.32 MB out of 148675.55 MB, Memory: Used 2808.00 MB out of 15990.00 MB, CPU: Usage 4.72%

##[debug]Process exited with code 0 and signal null for tool '/usr/bin/bash'
##[debug]STDIO streams have closed and received exit code 0 and signal null for tool '/usr/bin/bash'
##[error]/opt/az/lib/python3.12/site-packages/azure/multiapi/storagev2/fileshare/init.py:1: UserWarning: pkg_resources is deprecated as an API. See https://setuptools.pypa.io/en/latest/pkg_resources.html. The pkg_resources package is slated for removal as early as 2025-11-30. Refrain from using this package or pin to Setuptools<81.
import('pkg_resources').declare_namespace(name)
##[debug]Processed: ##vso[task.issue type=error;source=CustomerScript;correlationId=xxx;]/opt/az/lib/python3.12/site-packages/azure/multiapi/storagev2/fileshare/init.py:1: UserWarning: pkg_resources is deprecated as an API. See https://setuptools.pypa.io/en/latest/pkg_resources.html. The pkg_resources package is slated for removal as early as 2025-11-30. Refrain from using this package or pin to Setuptools<81.
import('pkg_resources').declare_namespace(name)
##[debug]task result: Failed

Expected behavior

if a command works, there should be no output to stderr

Environment Summary

Azure CLI:
azure-cli: 2.74.0
azure-cli-core: 2.74.0
azure-cli-telemetry: 1.1.0
extensions:
azure-devops: 1.0.1
log-analytics: 1.0.0b1

Additional context

No response

[yonzhan]

Thank you for opening this issue, we will look into it.

[jaredbrogan]

Just ran into this as well.
Thanks for opening this @MmAtBosch, saved me the time and effort in doing the same. 😄

For added context into my experience, this is the specific error/warning text I saw returned when using the az devops extension:

/opt/az/azcliextensions/azure-devops/azext_devops/dev/__init__.py:5: UserWarning: pkg_resources is deprecated as an API. See https://setuptools.pypa.io/en/latest/pkg_resources.html. The pkg_resources package is slated for removal as early as 2025-11-30. Refrain from using this package or pin to Setuptools<81.
  import pkg_resources

I assume there may be a global requirements file in use or something, regardless of what command/extension is passed to az cli.

[igorilic]

This broke our pipelines. The workaround is to install 2.72 or 2.73 version

[bebound]

@xfz11 for awareness of this code as well

azure-cli/src/azure-cli/azure/cli/command_modules/serviceconnector/_utils.py

Line 390 in fab9fcb

import pkg_resources