python312Packages.wheel: 0.44.0 -> 0.45.1, fix poetry2nix

[fpletz]

Since the beginning/mid of September, some python packages like PyYAML fail to build with poetry2nix using nixpkgs master and release-24.11. The issue we're encountering is pypa/setuptools#4683. I believe the root cause is the update of setuptools to 75.1.1 in 6b98b10.

We are encountering this for instance in the authentik-nix flake. The issue can be reliably fixed by bumping wheel to 0.45.0 but the override is a bit ugly, see fpletz/authentik-nix@24907f6.

This issue is solely related to poetry2nix builds and not for python packages in nixpkgs itself. I haven't investigated deeply what poetry2nix is doing differently under the hood than the python packaging in nixpkgs. Maybe some of our python maintainers can enlighten me here. Since it's a poetry2nix issue, I would prefer a fix in poetry2nix itself but it's abandonware yet still used by lots of people until the pyproject-nix tooling is ready for primetime. Putting the wheel package bump into poetry2nix is IMHO also not an ideal solution. A fix in nixpkgs (this PR) would also fix the issue but needs to be backported to 24.11 and is a mass-rebuild.

The fix for setuptools in pypa/setuptools#4684 was released with 75.2.0. The fix for wheel in pypa/wheel#638 was released in 0.45.0. I'm not entirely sure which of the two packages we should bump but I've chosen wheel for this PR.

Further ideas or solutions to fix the situation are appreciated.

Things done

• Built on platform(s)
  • x86_64-linux
  • aarch64-linux
  • x86_64-darwin
  • aarch64-darwin
• For non-Linux: Is sandboxing enabled in nix.conf? (See Nix manual)
  • sandbox = relaxed
  • sandbox = true
• Tested, as applicable:
  • NixOS test(s) (look inside nixos/tests)
  • and/or package tests
  • or, for functions and "core" functionality, tests in lib/tests or pkgs/test
  • made sure NixOS tests are linked to the relevant packages
• Tested compilation of all packages that depend on this change using nix-shell -p nixpkgs-review --run "nixpkgs-review rev HEAD". Note: all changes have to be committed, also see nixpkgs-review usage
• Tested basic functionality of all binary files (usually in ./result/bin/)
• 25.05 Release Notes (or backporting 24.11 and 25.05 Release notes)
  • (Package updates) Added a release notes entry if the change is major or breaking
  • (Module updates) Added a release notes entry if the change is significant
  • (Module addition) Added a release notes entry if adding a new NixOS module
• Fits CONTRIBUTING.md.

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[dotlambda]

I believe the root cause is the update of setuptools to 75.1.1 in 6b98b10.

I doubt it was the update to 75.1.1. It might have been caused by the update 75.1.0 in 20d9b03.

[dotlambda]

The changelog looks fine to me.

It would be nice to use build-system.

[nix-backports]

Successfully created backport PR for staging-24.11:

• [Backport staging-24.11] python312Packages.wheel: 0.44.0 -> 0.45.1, fix poetry2nix #362304