Invalid version: '0.23ubuntu1' causes subsequent pip3 install failures

During installation of pip3/python modules we run into an "Invalid version" error that lists this package as the source.

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Docker container of Ubuntu 20.04
Description: Ubuntu 20.04.5 LTS
Release: 20.04

#apt-cache policy python3-distro-info
python3-distro-info:
  Installed: 0.23ubuntu1
  Candidate: 0.23ubuntu1
  Version table:
 *** 0.23ubuntu1 500
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

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# apt show python3-distro-info
Package: python3-distro-info
Version: 0.23ubuntu1
Priority: standard
Section: python
Source: distro-info
Origin: Ubuntu
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers <email address hidden>
Original-Maintainer: Benjamin Drung <email address hidden>
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Installed-Size: 32.8 kB
Depends: distro-info-data, python3:any
Task: standard
Download-Size: 5924 B
APT-Manual-Installed: yes
APT-Sources: http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal/main amd64 Packages
Description: information about distributions' releases (Python 3 module)

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We expected to be able to install a pip3 package - in this case pre-commit.

Command and subsequent error:
# pip3 install pre-commit
ERROR: Exception:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/pip/_internal/cli/base_command.py", line 186, in _main
    status = self.run(options, args)
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/pip/_internal/commands/install.py", line 357, in run
    resolver.resolve(requirement_set)
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/pip/_internal/legacy_resolve.py", line 177, in resolve
    discovered_reqs.extend(self._resolve_one(requirement_set, req))
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/pip/_internal/legacy_resolve.py", line 333, in _resolve_one
    abstract_dist = self._get_abstract_dist_for(req_to_install)
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/pip/_internal/legacy_resolve.py", line 270, in _get_abstract_dist_for
    skip_reason = self._check_skip_installed(req)
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/pip/_internal/legacy_resolve.py", line 228, in _check_skip_installed
    req_to_install.check_if_exists(self.use_user_site)
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/pip/_internal/req/req_install.py", line 443, in check_if_exists
    self.satisfied_by = pkg_resources.get_distribution(str(no_marker))
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.8/dist-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 514, in get_distribution
    dist = get_provider(dist)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.8/dist-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 386, in get_provider
    return working_set.find(moduleOrReq) or require(str(moduleOrReq))[0]
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.8/dist-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 956, in require
    needed = self.resolve(parse_requirements(requirements))
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.8/dist-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 815, in resolve
    dist = self._resolve_dist(
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.8/dist-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 844, in _resolve_dist
    env = Environment(self.entries)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.8/dist-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 1044, in __init__
    self.scan(search_path)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.8/dist-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 1077, in scan
    self.add(dist)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.8/dist-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 1096, in add
    dists.sort(key=operator.attrgetter('hashcmp'), reverse=True)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.8/dist-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 2640, in hashcmp
    self.parsed_version,
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.8/dist-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 2694, in parsed_version
    raise packaging.version.InvalidVersion(f"{str(ex)} {info}") from None
pkg_resources.extern.packaging.version.InvalidVersion: Invalid version: '0.23ubuntu1' (package: distro-info)

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steps to reproduce:
- clean ubuntu install
- install curl gnupg lsb-release python3 python3-pip lsb-release wget software-properties-common libomp5-12
- pip3 install --upgrade setuptools (necessary for other packages we use)
- pip3 install pre-commit