title: pip's wheel support requires setuptools >= 0.8 for dist-info support
body: <p>I have a Jenkins server running Ubuntu which has been running perfectly fine for as long as I've been using it, and in one of the jobs, it runs a few things under the shiningpanda plugin (a python virtual environment wrapper).</p>
  
  <p>At some point today, or over the weekend, the job that uses it started failing, with the main error seemingly being the title, full error reported is</p>
  
  <pre><code>&gt; pip install Jinja2
  Wheel installs require setuptools &gt;= 0.8 for dist-info support.
  pip's wheel support requires setuptools &gt;= 0.8 for dist-info support.
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I've googled for this error, or anything like it, but I haven't been able to find anything useful towards solving it.</p>