[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#1061784: ariba fails its autopkg tests with Python 3.12

[Matthias Klose]

Package: src:ariba
Version: 2.14.7+ds-1
Severity: important
Tags: sid trixie ftbfs
User: debian-python at lists.debian.org
Usertags: python3.12

With python3-defaults from experimental, the package fails its autopkg 
tests:

[...]

333s No containers need to be restarted.
333s
333s No user sessions are running outdated binaries.
333s
333s No VM guests are running outdated hypervisor (qemu) binaries on 
this host.
338s (Reading database ... 119216 files and directories currently 
installed.)
338s Removing autopkgtest-satdep (0) ...
339s autopkgtest [13:35:08]: test test-example: [-----------------------
342s Traceback (most recent call last):
342s   File "/usr/bin/ariba", line 3, in <module>
342s     import ariba
342s   File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/ariba/__init__.py", line 57, 
in <module>
342s     from ariba import *
342s   File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/ariba/assembly.py", line 6, 
in <module>
342s     from ariba import common, mapping, bam_parse, external_progs, 
ref_seq_chooser
342s   File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/ariba/mapping.py", line 3, 
in <module>
342s     from distutils.version import LooseVersion
342s ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'distutils'
343s autopkgtest [13:35:12]: test test-example: -----------------------]
343s test-example         FAIL non-zero exit status 1
343s autopkgtest [13:35:12]: test test-example:  - - - - - - - - - - 
results - - - - - - - - - -
343s autopkgtest [13:35:12]: @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ summary
343s test-example         FAIL non-zero exit status 1