Merge branch 'master' into ci_fixes

Author: agunapal

requirements/common.txt

@@ -5,3 +5,4 @@ packaging==23.2
 pynvml==11.5.0
 pyyaml==6.0
 ninja==1.11.1.1
+setuptools==69.5.1

ts_scripts/install_dependencies.py

@@ -146,7 +146,6 @@ def install_python_packages(self, cuda_version, requirements_file_path, nightly)
         else:
             self.install_torch_packages(cuda_version)
 
-        os.system(f"{sys.executable} -m pip install -U pip setuptools")
         # developer.txt also installs packages from common.txt
         os.system(f"{sys.executable} -m pip install -U -r {requirements_file_path}")