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Some CI tests are failing due to this change in pip to no longer protect setuptools, distribute or wheel by default on Python 3.12+: pypa/pip@5dc65ea
That has been in the pip dev branch for a while, and was published in pip 24.1 in the past few days.
This change affects the pip-tools test suite by way of the PACKAGES_TO_IGNORE value, which reads the pip freeze internal API via
pip-tools/piptools/_compat/pip_compat.py
Line 101 in 5330964
Simplest CI fix would likely be to drop those packages from the affected test cases, since their handling depends on the versions of other components.