Fix setuptools bootstrapping now that dependencies are no longer vendored (#3198)

* Fix setuptools bootstrapping now that dependencies are no longer vendored
* Reorder patch and comments
* Use exact same patch as https://github.com/ActiveState/appdirs/pull/84
* Use exact same patch as https://sourceforge.net/p/pyparsing/patches/10/

var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/py-packaging/package.py

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+##############################################################################
+# Copyright (c) 2013-2016, Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC.
+# Produced at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.
+#
+# This file is part of Spack.
+# Created by Todd Gamblin, tgamblin@llnl.gov, All rights reserved.
+# LLNL-CODE-647188
+#
+# For details, see https://github.com/llnl/spack
+# Please also see the LICENSE file for our notice and the LGPL.
+#
+# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+# it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License (as
+# published by the Free Software Foundation) version 2.1, February 1999.
+#
+# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
+# WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the IMPLIED WARRANTY OF
+# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the terms and
+# conditions of the GNU Lesser General Public License for more details.
+#
+# You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public
+# License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
+# Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA
+##############################################################################
+from spack import *
+
+
+class PyPackaging(PythonPackage):
+    """Core utilities for Python packages."""
+
+    homepage = "https://github.com/pypa/packaging"
+    url      = "https://pypi.io/packages/source/p/packaging/packaging-16.8.tar.gz"
+
+    version('16.8', '53895cdca04ecff80b54128e475b5d3b')
+
+    # Not needed for the installation, but used at runtime
+    depends_on('py-six',       type='run')
+    depends_on('py-pyparsing', type='run')
+
+    # Newer versions of setuptools require packaging. Although setuptools is an
+    # optional dependency of packaging, if it is not found, setup.py will
+    # fallback on distutils.core instead. Don't add a setuptools dependency
+    # or we won't be able to bootstrap setuptools.
+
+    # depends_on('py-setuptools', type='build')