diff --git a/newsfragments/125.feature b/newsfragments/125.feature
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..590e28dc
--- /dev/null
+++ b/newsfragments/125.feature
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Pin setuptools<82 in order to have ``pkg_resources`` which was removed in setuptools 82.
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 97159d27..260f0194 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@
     url="http://github.com/acsone/setuptools-odoo",
     packages=["setuptools_odoo"],
     include_package_data=True,
-    install_requires=["setuptools", "setuptools_scm>=2.1,!=4.0.0"],
+    install_requires=["setuptools<82", "setuptools_scm>=2.1,!=4.0.0"],
     python_requires=">=2.7, !=3.0.*, !=3.1.*, !=3.2.*, !=3.3.*, !=3.4.*",
     setup_requires=["setuptools-scm!=4.0.0"],
     test_suite="tests",