From 48196907ea789225269c52a898b3edcb76feb28f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Jason R. Coombs" <jaraco@jaraco.com>
Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2022 19:03:50 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] Prevent vendored importlib_metadata from loading
 distributions from older importlib_metadata. Fixes #3102.

---
 changelog.d/3102.misc.rst |  1 +
 setuptools/_importlib.py  | 23 +++++++++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 24 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 changelog.d/3102.misc.rst

diff --git a/changelog.d/3102.misc.rst b/changelog.d/3102.misc.rst
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..2aa4d73a14
--- /dev/null
+++ b/changelog.d/3102.misc.rst
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Prevent vendored importlib_metadata from loading distributions from older importlib_metadata.
diff --git a/setuptools/_importlib.py b/setuptools/_importlib.py
index c529ccd332..c1ac137e11 100644
--- a/setuptools/_importlib.py
+++ b/setuptools/_importlib.py
@@ -1,8 +1,31 @@
 import sys
 
 
+def disable_importlib_metadata_finder(metadata):
+    """
+    Ensure importlib_metadata doesn't provide older, incompatible
+    Distributions.
+
+    Workaround for #3102.
+    """
+    try:
+        import importlib_metadata
+    except ImportError:
+        return
+    if importlib_metadata is metadata:
+        return
+    to_remove = [
+        ob
+        for ob in sys.meta_path
+        if isinstance(ob, importlib_metadata.MetadataPathFinder)
+    ]
+    for item in to_remove:
+        sys.meta_path.remove(item)
+
+
 if sys.version_info < (3, 10):
     from setuptools.extern import importlib_metadata as metadata
+    disable_importlib_metadata_finder(metadata)
 else:
     import importlib.metadata as metadata  # noqa: F401