Add Ubuntu 24.04 Ansible installation and test coverage#4140
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The motivation to upgrade pip system-wide is not very well-founded as it only beneficial to: - user-managed system-wide pip installations - enabling a high-versioned pip by default in new virtual environments Because pip can be upgraded within virtual environments, this is not critical. Additionally, PEP 668 is the Python community's official position against using Python package management tools (pip, etc) to manage packages alongside "externally" managed packages (apt, dnf, etc). Recent Debian and Ubuntu releases have adopted PEP 668 by default, thus breaking the ability to use packaged-pip to upgrade pip system-wide. - https://peps.python.org/pep-0668/ - https://packaging.python.org/en/latest/specifications/externally-managed-environments/#externally-managed-environments
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This PR adds Ansible support for Ubuntu 24.04 by:
Switching to python3-setuptools
On Ubuntu 24.04, python3-distutils is no longer separately packaged and python3-setuptools is the recommended alternative. On all recent Debian-derived platforms python3-setuptools is packaged and, if it exists, depends upon python3-distutils. So this PR makes the choice to uniformly install python3-setuptools.
Background:
distutilsis built into Python whilesetuptoolsis a 3rd party solution, but has wider adoption and functionality.Removing pip self-upgrade
The motivation to upgrade pip system-wide is not very well-founded as it only beneficial to:
Because pip can be upgraded within virtual environments, this is not critical. Additionally, PEP 668 is the Python community's official position against using Python package management tools (pip, etc) to manage packages alongside "externally" managed packages (apt, dnf, etc). Recent Debian and Ubuntu releases have adopted PEP 668 by default, thus breaking the ability to use packaged-pip to upgrade pip system-wide.
Blocked by #4139.
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