photutils 1.12 not valid in a python 3.10 slim docker environment

[havok2063]

I am setting up a docker container using the python:3.10-slim image. photutils 1.12 is getting installed as a dependency through jdaviz. The installation fails:

Collecting photutils==1.12
  Downloading photutils-1.12.0.tar.gz (1.2 MB)
     ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 1.2/1.2 MB 10.9 MB/s eta 0:00:00
ERROR: photutils==1.12 from https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/10/b6/2ecd1ddebf269aa78103959a99ebb2c2ca9070f392cf10ac767fc4176b2a/photutils-1.12.0.tar.gz does not appear to be a Python project: neither 'setup.py' nor 'pyproject.toml' found.

Manually installing photutils=1.11 seems to works fine. Is the package build wonky for 1.12, or is there something weird going on in my container setup?

[larrybradley]

@havok2063 Unfortunately there is something "different" about the PyPI source tarball (there was an odd setuptools issue during that release). The contents of the file are perfectly fine, but for some unknown reason you cannot run pip install photutils-1.12.0.tar.gz directly on this file. If you untar the file and then install from the unpacked directly it works fine, e.g., pip install ./photutils-1.12.0.

I also added a source tarball on the GitHub release page that does work properly with pip install:
https://github.com/astropy/photutils/releases/download/1.12.0/photutils-1.12.0.tar.gz