types-setuptools 71.1.0.20240726 fails to typecheck with pyright

[doy-materialize]

after upgrading, i get:

error: Type of "setup" is partially unknown
    Type of "setup" is "(*, name: str = ..., version: str = ..., description: str = ..., long_description: str = ..., long_description_content_type: str = ..., author: str = ..., author_email: str = ..., maintainer: str = ..., maintainer_email: str = ..., url: str = ..., download_url: str = ..., packages: list[str] = ..., py_modules: list[str] = ..., scripts: list[str] = ..., ext_modules: Sequence[Extension] = ..., classifiers: list[str] = ..., distclass: type[Distribution] = ..., script_name: str = ..., script_args: list[str] = ..., options: Mapping[str, Any] = ..., license: str = ..., keywords: list[str] | str = ..., platforms: list[str] | str = ..., cmdclass: Mapping[str, type[Command]] = ..., data_files: list[tuple[str, list[str]]] = ..., package_dir: Mapping[str, str] = ..., obsoletes: list[str] = ..., provides: list[str] = ..., requires: list[str] = ..., command_packages: list[str] = ..., command_options: Mapping[str, Mapping[str, tuple[Any, Any]]] = ..., package_data: Mapping[str, list[str]] = ..., include_package_data: bool = ..., libraries: list[str] = ..., headers: list[str] = ..., ext_package: str = ..., include_dirs: list[str] = ..., password: str = ..., fullname: str = ..., **attrs: Unknown) -> Distribution" (reportUnknownVariableType)

this appears to be due to #12406, which removed the Any annotation from **attrs with no replacement, which pyright interprets as Unknown.

[JelleZijlstra]

This seems to behave as expected. You are using very strict settings that warn you if you are using stubs with incomplete annotations. Using those settings will mean that you have to deal with occasional issues like this; you can fix them by either ignoring the error in your code with the appropriate comment, or contributing improved stubs.

[doy-materialize]

i don't really understand why this issue was closed. i understand that the solution here is that improved stubs are needed, but... that's why i opened the issue - the stubs in this repository don't work and need to be fixed, as far as i can tell? or is there somewhere else this should be reported?

[JelleZijlstra]

The stubs work fine, but pyright is warning you that they are incomplete, like many other stubs in typeshed. We don't consider that a bug, but we accept PRs adding annotations to unannotated functions.