Dockerfile build failed with pip/setuptools versioning issues

[sputnick1124]

Trying to build the docker container on an Ubuntu 16.04 laptop fails. All signs point to similar issues pypa/setuptools#937 and pypa/setuptools#942.

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Downloading/unpacking py>=1.4.25 (from pytest==2.6.4->sbp==0.29)
Installing collected packages: setuptools, pyserial, pylibftdi, pyparsing, pygments, intelhex, construct, sbp, appdirs, six, packaging, cov-core, coverage, flake8, futures, pep8, pyftdi, pytest, pytest-cov, tox, virtualenv, pyflakes, mccabe, pyusb, py
  Found existing installation: setuptools 3.3
    Not uninstalling setuptools at /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages, owned by OS
  Running setup.py install for pyparsing
    Traceback (most recent call last):
      File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
      File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/setuptools/__init__.py", line 12, in <module>
        import setuptools.version
      File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/setuptools/version.py", line 1, in <module>
        import pkg_resources
      File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 70, in <module>
        import packaging.version
    ImportError: No module named packaging.version
    Complete output from command /usr/bin/python -c "import setuptools, tokenize;__file__='/tmp/pip_build_root/pyparsing/setup.py';exec(compile(getattr(tokenize, 'open', open)(__file__).read().replace('\r\n', '\n'), __file__, 'exec'))" install --record /tmp/pip-684ATU-record/install-record.txt --single-version-externally-managed --compile:
    Traceback (most recent call last):

  File "<string>", line 1, in <module>

  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/setuptools/__init__.py", line 12, in <module>

    import setuptools.version

  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/setuptools/version.py", line 1, in <module>

    import pkg_resources

  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 70, in <module>

    import packaging.version

ImportError: No module named packaging.version

Adding packaging and appdirs to the pip install list in the Dockerfile gets past that error and results in a different one.

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Downloading/unpacking py>=1.4.25 (from pytest==2.6.4->sbp==0.29)
Installing collected packages: packaging, appdirs, setuptools, pyserial, pylibftdi, pyparsing, pygments, intelhex, construct, sbp, cov-core, coverage, flake8, futures, pep8, pyftdi, pytest, pytest-cov, tox, virtualenv, pyflakes, mccabe, pyusb, py
  Found existing installation: setuptools 3.3
    Not uninstalling setuptools at /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages, owned by OS
  Running setup.py install for pyparsing
    Traceback (most recent call last):
      File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
      File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/setuptools/__init__.py", line 12, in <module>
        import setuptools.version
      File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/setuptools/version.py", line 1, in <module>
        import pkg_resources
      File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 72, in <module>
        import packaging.requirements
      File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/packaging/requirements.py", line 59, in <module>
        MARKER_EXPR = originalTextFor(MARKER_EXPR())("marker")
    TypeError: __call__() takes exactly 2 arguments (1 given)
    Complete output from command /usr/bin/python -c "import setuptools, tokenize;__file__='/tmp/pip_build_root/pyparsing/setup.py';exec(compile(getattr(tokenize, 'open', open)(__file__).read().replace('\r\n', '\n'), __file__, 'exec'))" install --record /tmp/pip-lFSM2q-record/install-record.txt --single-version-externally-managed --compile:
    Traceback (most recent call last):

  File "<string>", line 1, in <module>

  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/setuptools/__init__.py", line 12, in <module>

    import setuptools.version

  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/setuptools/version.py", line 1, in <module>

    import pkg_resources

  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 72, in <module>

    import packaging.requirements

  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/packaging/requirements.py", line 59, in <module>

    MARKER_EXPR = originalTextFor(MARKER_EXPR())("marker")

TypeError: __call__() takes exactly 2 arguments (1 given)

Upgrading pip in the container with RUN pip install --upgrade pip gets farther, but then fails similarly:

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Collecting distribute==0.7.3 (from -r requirements.txt (line 3))
  Downloading distribute-0.7.3.zip (145kB)
Exception:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pip/basecommand.py", line 215, in main
    status = self.run(options, args)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pip/commands/install.py", line 335, in run
    wb.build(autobuilding=True)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pip/wheel.py", line 749, in build
    self.requirement_set.prepare_files(self.finder)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pip/req/req_set.py", line 380, in prepare_files
    ignore_dependencies=self.ignore_dependencies))
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pip/req/req_set.py", line 634, in _prepare_file
    abstract_dist.prep_for_dist()
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pip/req/req_set.py", line 129, in prep_for_dist
    self.req_to_install.run_egg_info()
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pip/req/req_install.py", line 412, in run_egg_info
    self.setup_py, self.name,
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pip/req/req_install.py", line 387, in setup_py
    import setuptools  # noqa
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/setuptools/__init__.py", line 12, in <module>
    import setuptools.version
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/setuptools/version.py", line 1, in <module>
    import pkg_resources
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 72, in <module>
    import packaging.requirements
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/packaging/requirements.py", line 59, in <module>
    MARKER_EXPR = originalTextFor(MARKER_EXPR())("marker")
TypeError: __call__() takes exactly 2 arguments (1 given)
The command '/bin/sh -c pip install -r requirements.txt' returned a non-zero code: 2

Any ideas what's going on?