Hello, python-distribute is merged back into setuptools and deprecated. [1] http://mail.python.org/pipermail/distutils-sig/2013-March/020126.html [2] http://pythonhosted.org/setuptools/merge.html I'm not sure where to report this since the bug report is not for out of date package. Here is the new PKGBUILD for python-setuptools-0.9.8: [3] https://gist.github.com/shanipribadi/6210208 Altough setuptools 1.0 will be out very soon (mercurial repo is already at 1.0b1, pypi is still at 0.9.8) Thank you.