[Bug]: DeprecationWarning: pkg_resources is deprecated as an API on =pynwb-2.3.1

[TheChymera]

What happened?

The latest pynwb gives a deprecation warning, which in DANDI is elevated to an error, making all tests which rely on pynwb fail.

Steps to Reproduce

(dev) [deco]~/src/dandi-cli ❱ pytest -vvs dandi/cli/tests/test_cmd_validate.py::test_process_issues
ImportError while loading conftest '/home/chymera/src/dandi-cli/dandi/conftest.py'.
dandi/conftest.py:7: in <module>
    from .tests.fixtures import *  # noqa: F401, F403  # lgtm [py/polluting-import]
dandi/tests/fixtures.py:20: in <module>
    import pynwb
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/pynwb/__init__.py:105: in <module>
    __resources = __get_resources()
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/pynwb/__init__.py:25: in __get_resources
    from pkg_resources import resource_filename
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py:121: in <module>
    warnings.warn("pkg_resources is deprecated as an API", DeprecationWarning)
E   DeprecationWarning: pkg_resources is deprecated as an API
(dev) [deco]~/src/dandi-cli ❱ eix pynwb
[?] dev-python/pynwb [1]
     Available versions:  (~)2.1.0-r2^t (~)2.2.0-r1^t {test PYTHON_TARGETS="python3_10"}
     Installed versions:  2.3.1(15:37:18 22/03/23)(test PYTHON_TARGETS="python3_10")
     Homepage:            https://github.com/NeurodataWithoutBorders/pynwb
     Description:         A Python API for working with Neurodata stored in the NWB Format

[1] "science" /home/chymera/src/sci
(dev) [deco]~/src/dandi-cli ❱ python
Python 3.10.10 (main, Mar 20 2023, 10:28:47) [GCC 12.2.1 20230304] on linux
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import pynwb
>>> pynwb.__version__
'2.3.1'

Traceback

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Operating System

Linux

Python Executable

Python

Python Version

3.10

Package Versions

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[bendichter]

Thanks for the issue, but I think elevating warnings to errors is a bit strict

[rly]

This seems similar to hdmf-dev/hdmf#826 . We'll issue a fix.

[TheChymera]

The linked commit indeed fixed the issue.