"maximum recursion depth exceeded" installing android tools with ubuntu make

[Colin Law]

Following the instructions from https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-make I
installed ubuntu-make with snap.
sudo snap install ubuntu-make --classic
then ran
umake android
to install the developer tools.  It said
Downloading and installing requirements
then after a long time it said
ERROR: maximum recursion depth exceeded
100% |#################################################################################################|
ERROR: Package requirements can't be met: maximum recursion depth exceeded.

It appears to be a problem with the python code but Google did not
come up with anything specific to umake.

Any suggestions gratefully received.

Colin L.