From 1b4c6fdd207af593a00d513dd7e5515b870f8147 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Karl O. Pinc" <kop@karlpinc.com>
Date: Wed, 10 May 2023 00:50:15 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] Work-around a venv bug that breaks the generated
 requirements.txt

---
 Makefile | 5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 796e23e..d3bd654 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -215,9 +215,12 @@ update-sphinx: destroy-sphinx-venv install_new_sphinx
 ##                      Produce a sphinx package version requirement file
 ##                      able to reproduce the existing sphinx venv
 ##                      (Copy to doc/requirements.txt to make effective.)
+# The grep works-around a bug that's in Debian 11's venv code
 .PHONY: $(PREFIX)/requirements.txt.new
 $(PREFIX)/requirements.txt.new: install-sphinx
-	$(SPHINX_VENV)/bin/pip freeze > doc/requirements.txt.new
+	$(SPHINX_VENV)/bin/pip freeze \
+	  | grep -vF 'pkg_resources==0.0.0' \
+	  > doc/requirements.txt.new
 
 ##
 ## Lesser used targets are:
-- 
2.34.1