Unconditionally install setuptools on CI

Author: Flamefire

.github/workflows/eb_command.yml

@@ -35,10 +35,7 @@ jobs:
         # update to latest pip, check version
         pip install --upgrade pip
         pip --version
-        if ! python -c "import distutils" 2> /dev/null; then
-            # we need setuptools for distutils in Python 3.12+, needed for python setup.py sdist
-            pip install --upgrade setuptools
-        fi
+        pip install setuptools
 
         # for modules tool
         APT_PKGS="lua5.3 liblua5.3-dev lua-filesystem lua-posix tcl tcl-dev"

.github/workflows/unit_tests.yml

@@ -84,10 +84,8 @@ jobs:
         pip install --upgrade pip
         pip --version
         pip install -r requirements.txt
-        if ! python -c "import distutils" 2> /dev/null; then
-            # we need setuptools for distutils in Python 3.12+, needed for python setup.py sdist
-            pip install --upgrade setuptools
-        fi
+        pip install setuptools
+
         # git config is required to make actual git commits (cfr. tests for GitRepository)
         git config --global user.name "Github Actions"
         git config --global user.email "actions@github.com"