It seems the py3-setuptools are necessary even during runtime, since
deluge tries to import pkg_resources, which py3-setuptools does provide.
---
 testing/deluge/APKBUILD | 5 +++--
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/testing/deluge/APKBUILD b/testing/deluge/APKBUILD
index 317631b970..15567e3b30 100644
--- a/testing/deluge/APKBUILD
+++ b/testing/deluge/APKBUILD
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 # Maintainer: August Klein <amatcoder@gmail.com>
 pkgname=deluge
 pkgver=2.0.3
-pkgrel=7
+pkgrel=8
 pkgdesc="lightweight, Free Software, cross-platform BitTorrent client"
 url="https://deluge-torrent.org/"
 arch="noarch !armv7" # Missing py3-libtorrent-rasterbar
@@ -29,8 +29,9 @@ depends="
 	py3-gobject3
 	py3-cairo
 	py3-wheel
+	py3-setuptools
 	"
-makedepends="py3-setuptools"
+makedepends=""
 subpackages="$pkgname-doc"
 source="http://download.deluge-torrent.org/source/${pkgver%.*}/deluge-$pkgver.tar.xz
 	10-python38-logging.patch
-- 
2.32.0

On Sun, 08 Aug 2021 22:55:29 +0200, Wolf wrote:
>  	"
> -makedepends="py3-setuptools"
> +makedepends=""

better to remove the empty `makedepends` line

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via https://gitlab.alpinelinux.org/alpine/aports/-/merge_requests/24050#note_173292