Packaging fails because of missing bdist_wheel

[bedaka]

Describe the bug

Hello.

since this morning the package job (executing jsii-pacmak) within our CI fails with the error logs below. It seems like the python dependency bdist_wheel is suddenly missing. The same jobs were running successfully yesterday evening and we did not make any changes to our containers in the meantime.

• Manually installing wheel via pip install wheel within the CI before running package does not solve the issue.
• Locally I cannot reproduce this issue.

Regression Issue

• Select this option if this issue appears to be a regression.

Expected Behavior

I expected the package command to be executed successfully like it did in the past.

Current Behavior

`
$ npm run package

@[email protected] package
jsii-pacmak
[jsii-pacmak] [WARN] Failed building python
[jsii-pacmak] [WARN] python failed
Error: All attempts failed. Last error: Command (/tmp/npm-packUAxNsj/.env-QWvd1k/bin/python -m pip wheel --no-deps --wheel-dir /builds/abc/internal/ourlib/dist/python /tmp/npm-packUAxNsj) failed with status 1:
#STDERR> ERROR: Command errored out with exit status 1:
#STDERR> command: /tmp/npm-packUAxNsj/.env-QWvd1k/bin/python /tmp/npm-packUAxNsj/.env-QWvd1k/lib64/python3.9/site-packages/pip/_vendor/pep517/in_process/_in_process.py prepare_metadata_for_build_wheel /tmp/tmpjce3un5y
#STDERR> cwd: /tmp/npm-packUAxNsj
#STDERR> Complete output (15 lines):
#STDERR> /usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/setuptools/_distutils/dist.py:275: UserWarning: Unknown distribution option: 'bdist_wheel'
#STDERR> warnings.warn(msg)
#STDERR> running dist_info
#STDERR> creating /tmp/pip-modern-metadata-oe2ac0ad/ourlib_common.egg-info
#STDERR> writing /tmp/pip-modern-metadata-oe2ac0ad/ourlib_common_common.egg-info/PKG-INFO
#STDERR> writing dependency_links to /tmp/pip-modern-metadata-oe2ac0ad/ourlib_common_common.egg-info/dependency_links.txt
#STDERR> writing requirements to /tmp/pip-modern-metadata-oe2ac0ad/ourlib_common_common.egg-info/requires.txt
#STDERR> writing top-level names to /tmp/pip-modern-metadata-oe2ac0ad/ourlib_common_cdk_common.egg-info/top_level.txt
#STDERR> writing manifest file '/tmp/pip-modern-metadata-oe2ac0ad/ourlib_common_common.egg-info/SOURCES.txt'
#STDERR> reading manifest file '/tmp/pip-modern-metadata-oe2ac0ad/ourlib_common.egg-info/SOURCES.txt'
#STDERR> reading manifest template 'MANIFEST.in'
#STDERR> adding license file 'LICENSE'
#STDERR> writing manifest file '/tmp/pip-modern-metadata-oe2ac0ad/ourlib_common.egg-info/SOURCES.txt'
#STDERR> creating '/tmp/pip-modern-metadata-oe2ac0ad/ourlib_common.dist-info'
#STDERR> error: invalid command 'bdist_wheel'
#STDERR> ----------------------------------------
#STDERR> WARNING: Discarding file:///tmp/npm-packUAxNsj. Command errored out with exit status 1: /tmp/npm-packUAxNsj/.env-QWvd1k/bin/python /tmp/npm-packUAxNsj/.env-QWvd1k/lib64/python3.9/site-packages/pip/_vendor/pep517/in_process/_in_process.py prepare_metadata_for_build_wheel /tmp/tmpjce3un5y Check the logs for full command output.
#STDERR> ERROR: Command errored out with exit status 1: /tmp/npm-packUAxNsj/.env-QWvd1k/bin/python /tmp/npm-packUAxNsj/.env-QWvd1k/lib64/python3.9/site-packages/pip/_vendor/pep517/in_process/_in_process.py prepare_metadata_for_build_wheel /tmp/tmpjce3un5y Check the logs for full command output.
#STDERR> WARNING: You are using pip version 21.3.1; however, version 25.0.1 is available.
#STDERR> You should consider upgrading via the '/tmp/npm-packUAxNsj/.env-QWvd1k/bin/python -m pip install --upgrade pip' command.
#STDERR>
#STDOUT> Processing /tmp/npm-packUAxNsj
#STDOUT> Installing build dependencies: started
#STDOUT> Installing build dependencies: finished with status 'done'
#STDOUT> Getting requirements to build wheel: started
#STDOUT> Getting requirements to build wheel: finished with status 'done'
#STDOUT> Preparing metadata (pyproject.toml): started
#STDOUT> Preparing metadata (pyproject.toml): finished with status 'error'
`

Reproduction Steps

As described above we run jsii-pacmak

The versions we use:
"jsii": "5.8.4",
"jsii-pacmak": "1.111.0",

Possible Solution

No response

Additional Information/Context

No response

SDK version used

1.111.0

Environment details (OS name and version, etc.)

al-2023

[bedaka]

Strangely this started working again without any interference from our side.

Closing the issue

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