Bug#1064726: 0ad: FTBFS: ImportError: cannot import name 'dist' from 'distutils' (/usr/lib/python3.11/distutils/__init__.py)

[David W. Kennedy]

Hi,

I found that adding Build-Depends: python3-distutils solves this 
problem.

The natural question is why did build of 0ad work in the past, but not 
now. I found that python3-distutils was being pulled in only as a side 
effect of one of the dependencies, libsdl2-dev. The build failure is 
caused by the fact that the Debian package of glib2.0 stopped depending 
on python3-distutils as of 23 Jan 2024.

Specifically, libsdl2-dev depends on libibus-1.0-dev, which depends on 
libglib2.0-dev, which depends on libglib2.0-dev-bin, which used to 
depend on python3-distutils, but now depends on python3-packaging. This 
change was made to libglib2.0-dev-bin in version 2.78.3-2 on 23 Jan 
2024.

I've committed the Build-Depends change to Debian Salsa.

Thanks.
-- 
David W. Kennedy