[backport:2.6][!10] Make Python package detection work with pip 10

pip 10 moved several interfaces to an internal package, causing our pyversion.py script to fail. This patches fixes the issue by getting installed distributions directly from setuptools, as suggested in https://github.com/pypa/pip/issues/5243.

See merge request !540 (merged)

(cherry picked from commit 746aa626)

2443bc4a Make Python package detection work with pip 10

enabled an automatic merge when the pipeline for 79906467 succeeds

mentioned in commit dd821031

merged