From 1550cce3a737a43556eb9c5ebbd89aa87c0e20cf Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ofek Lev <ofekmeister@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2023 13:41:20 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] Remove erroneous runtime dependence on setuptools

---
 setup.py | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 5f16a54f8..c5d7c8499 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -35,7 +35,9 @@ with open('requirements.txt') as f:
     for line in f:
         line, _, _ = line.partition('#')
         line = line.strip()
-        if ';' in line:
+        if not line or line.startswith('setuptools'):
+            continue
+        elif ';' in line:
             requirement, _, specifier = line.partition(';')
             for_specifier = EXTRAS.setdefault(':{}'.format(specifier), [])
             for_specifier.append(requirement)