This is being tracked in setuptools upstream too
https://github.com/pypa/setuptools/issues/2541
The cause is that python-virtualenv is pulling in setuptools 51.3.3
`virtualenv -p /usr/bin/python3 venv/py3 --verbose`
```
....snip...
Installing setuptools, pkg_resources, pip, wheel...
Collecting setuptools
Using cached
https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/b2/81/509db0082c0d2ca2af307c6652ea422865de1f83c14b1e1f3549e415cfac/setuptools-51.3.3-py3-none-any.whl
Collecting pkg_resources
Collecting pip
Using cached
https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/54/eb/4a3642e971f404d69d4f6fa3885559d67562801b99d7592487f1ecc4e017/pip-20.3.3-py2.py3-none-any.whl
Collecting wheel
Using cached
https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/65/63/39d04c74222770ed1589c0eaba06c05891801219272420b40311cd60c880/wheel-0.36.2-py2.py3-none-any.whl
Installing collected packages: setuptools, pkg-resources, pip, wheel
Successfully installed pip-20.3.3 pkg-resources-0.0.0 setuptools-51.3.3
wheel-0.36.2
...snip...
```
But 51.3.0 dropped support for python 3.5 which is what ships with
Xenial.
The fix would be to pin setuptools to `<51.3.0`.
** Bug watch added: github.com/pypa/setuptools/issues #2541
https://github.com/pypa/setuptools/issues/2541
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