Revert "importlib_metadata remove deprecated entry point interfaces"

[auvipy]

Reverts #7785

[auvipy]

@Nusnus even reverting this showing the doc build failure

[auvipy]

@jaraco as you also reviewed the merged PR, can you please also check this why the doc build is throwing the error?

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Codecov Report

Base: 89.31% // Head: 89.32% // Increases project coverage by +0.00% 🎉

Coverage data is based on head (c8ea12d) compared to base (43924e3).
Patch coverage: 0.00% of modified lines in pull request are covered.

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[auvipy]

@Kludex what about trying lower sphinx version?

[woutdenolf]

This can be closed. The error comes from kombu (fixed in celery/kombu#1601). It has nothing to do with #7785.

[auvipy]

yes you are right, keeping this open until kombu5.3.0b2 is released and tested