[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#1061804: iva fails its autopkg tests with Python 3.12

[Matthias Klose]

Package: src:iva
Version: 1.0.11+ds-4
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:

[...]
523s autopkgtest [13:39:26]: test test-example: [-----------------------
526s Traceback (most recent call last):
526s   File "/usr/bin/iva", line 22, in <module>
526s     import iva
526s   File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/iva/__init__.py", line 36, 
in <module>
526s     from iva import *
526s   File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/iva/assembly.py", line 19, 
in <module>
526s     from iva import contig, mapping, seed, mummer, graph, edge, common
526s   File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/iva/mapping.py", line 22, in 
<module>
526s     from iva import external_progs
526s   File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/iva/external_progs.py", line 
19, in <module>
526s     from distutils.version import LooseVersion
526s ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'distutils'
526s autopkgtest [13:39:29]: test test-example: -----------------------]
527s autopkgtest [13:39:30]: test test-example:  - - - - - - - - - - 
results - - - - - - - - - -
527s test-example         FAIL non-zero exit status 1
527s autopkgtest [13:39:30]: test test-example:  - - - - - - - - - - 
stderr - - - - - - - - - -
527s Traceback (most recent call last):
527s   File "/usr/bin/iva", line 22, in <module>
527s     import iva
527s   File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/iva/__init__.py", line 36, 
in <module>
527s     from iva import *
527s   File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/iva/assembly.py", line 19, 
in <module>
527s     from iva import contig, mapping, seed, mummer, graph, edge, common
527s   File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/iva/mapping.py", line 22, in 
<module>
527s     from iva import external_progs
527s   File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/iva/external_progs.py", line 
19, in <module>
527s     from distutils.version import LooseVersion
527s ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'distutils'
527s autopkgtest [13:39:30]: @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ summary