upgrade setuptools & wheel

.github/workflows/ci.yml

@@ -39,11 +39,13 @@ jobs:
         run: |
           .github/workflows/setup-ssh-localhost.sh
           ssh -v localhost
+      - name: Upgrade setuptools and wheel
+        run: |
+          python -m pip install --upgrade pip setuptools wheel
       - name: Install dependencies (including dev dependencies at frozen version)
         # I'm using pip install -e to make sure that the coverage properly traces the runs
         # also of the concurrent tests (maybe we can achieve this differently)
         run: |
-          python -m pip install --upgrade pip
           pip install -e .[progressbar,optionaltests]
           pip install -r requirements.lock
       - name: Test with pytest