drop the final remaining use of the deprecated pkg_resources module#590
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Declaring a namespace package has gone through a few revisions. pkg_resources has a version that is heavily deprecated. pkgutil provides a python2/python3 compatible version that is also compatible with native python3 namespaces.
https://packaging.python.org/en/latest/guides/packaging-namespace-packages/
pkg_resources is very very deprecated and importing or using it results in deprecation warnings. It's time to move off of it entirely.
Fixes: #577
Depends on: #589