Control: tags 943580 + moreinfo Hi,
I cannot reproduce it: python3.8 -c 'import pkg_resources as pkg; pkg.require("typing")' 1 Traceback (most recent call last): File "<string>", line 1, in <module> File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 900, in require needed = self.resolve(parse_requirements(requirements)) File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 786, in resolve raise DistributionNotFound(req, requirers) pkg_resources.DistributionNotFound: The 'typing' distribution was not found and is required by the application python3.7 -c 'import pkg_resources as pkg; pkg.require("typing")' 1 Traceback (most recent call last): File "<string>", line 1, in <module> File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 900, in require needed = self.resolve(parse_requirements(requirements)) File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 786, in resolve raise DistributionNotFound(req, requirers) pkg_resources.DistributionNotFound: The 'typing' distribution was not found and is required by the application python3.6 -c 'import pkg_resources as pkg; pkg.require("typing")' 1 Traceback (most recent call last): File "<string>", line 1, in <module> File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 900, in require needed = self.resolve(parse_requirements(requirements)) File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 786, in resolve raise DistributionNotFound(req, requirers) pkg_resources.DistributionNotFound: The 'typing' distribution was not found and is required by the application python3.5 -c 'import pkg_resources as pkg; pkg.require("typing")' 1 Traceback (most recent call last): File "<string>", line 1, in <module> File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 900, in require needed = self.resolve(parse_requirements(requirements)) File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 786, in resolve raise DistributionNotFound(req, requirers) pkg_resources.DistributionNotFound: The 'typing' distribution was not found and is required by the application Did you or upstream author confuse module name with (Python) distribution name (or Python package name or whatever they call it these days)?