This is a bug resulting from Ubuntu providing incorrect metadata to pip #1
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This line seems to break things in some cases when trying to install packages with a requirements.txt file generated with pip freeze that includes the pkg-resources==0.0.0 line
It seems to be some "implicitly installed package".
There is a follow-up bug with Ubuntu:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/python-pip/+bug/1635463