diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index acab1d6..9e11812 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -348,6 +348,7 @@ See also git tags: https://github.com/jedie/manageprojects/tags
 [comment]: <> (✂✂✂ auto generated history start ✂✂✂)
 
 * [v0.20.0](https://github.com/jedie/manageprojects/compare/v0.19.2...v0.20.0)
+  * 2024-11-11 - Bugfix publish command: Add missing "setuptools" dep.
   * 2024-11-11 - Switch to uv
   * 2024-09-25 - Add: test_pre_commit_hooks()
   * 2024-09-25 - Move git pre-commit hook from dev-cli.py to update command
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index bce036e..635180c 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -41,6 +41,7 @@ dev = [
     "bx_py_utils",   # https://github.com/boxine/bx_py_utils
     "urllib3", # for deny_requests.deny_any_real_request() in tests
     "uv",  # https://github.com/astral-sh/uv
+    "setuptools",  # https://github.com/pypa/setuptools
     "tox",  # https://github.com/tox-dev/tox
     "tox-uv",  # https://github.com/tox-dev/tox-uv
     "coverage",  # https://github.com/nedbat/coveragepy
diff --git a/uv.lock b/uv.lock
index fd87a3f..b186bdd 100644
--- a/uv.lock
+++ b/uv.lock
@@ -737,6 +737,7 @@ dev = [
     { name = "pyflakes" },
     { name = "python-gnupg" },
     { name = "pyupgrade" },
+    { name = "setuptools" },
     { name = "tox" },
     { name = "tox-uv" },
     { name = "twine" },
@@ -783,6 +784,7 @@ dev = [
     { name = "pyflakes" },
     { name = "python-gnupg" },
     { name = "pyupgrade" },
+    { name = "setuptools" },
     { name = "tox" },
     { name = "tox-uv" },
     { name = "twine" },
@@ -1372,6 +1374,15 @@ wheels = [
     { url = "https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/54/24/b4293291fa1dd830f353d2cb163295742fa87f179fcc8a20a306a81978b7/SecretStorage-3.3.3-py3-none-any.whl", hash = "sha256:f356e6628222568e3af06f2eba8df495efa13b3b63081dafd4f7d9a7b7bc9f99", size = 15221 },
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "setuptools"
+version = "75.3.0"
+source = { registry = "https://pypi.org/simple" }
+sdist = { url = "https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/ed/22/a438e0caa4576f8c383fa4d35f1cc01655a46c75be358960d815bfbb12bd/setuptools-75.3.0.tar.gz", hash = "sha256:fba5dd4d766e97be1b1681d98712680ae8f2f26d7881245f2ce9e40714f1a686", size = 1351577 }
+wheels = [
+    { url = "https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/90/12/282ee9bce8b58130cb762fbc9beabd531549952cac11fc56add11dcb7ea0/setuptools-75.3.0-py3-none-any.whl", hash = "sha256:f2504966861356aa38616760c0f66568e535562374995367b4e69c7143cf6bcd", size = 1251070 },
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "shtab"
 version = "1.7.1"