[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#1083070: bmtk: tests fail: No module named 'distutils'

[Drew Parsons]

Source: bmtk
Version: 1.1.1+ds-1
Severity: serious
Justification: debci
Control: affects -1 src:mpi4py

bmtk has started failing debci tests, due to a requirement for
distutils which is no longer packaged for debian

 70s Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.40-3) ...
 70s autopkgtest [13:09:51]: test run-unit-test: [-----------------------
 71s ============================= test session starts ==============================
 71s platform linux -- Python 3.12.6, pytest-8.3.3, pluggy-1.5.0 -- /usr/bin/python3.12
 71s cachedir: .pytest_cache
 71s rootdir: /tmp/autopkgtest-lxc.l2untem6/downtmp/autopkgtest_tmp
 71s plugins: typeguard-4.3.0
 75s collecting ... collected 360 items / 1 error / 5 skipped
 75s 
 75s ==================================== ERRORS ====================================
 75s _____ ERROR collecting tests/simulator/filternet/test_filternet_movies.py ______
 75s ImportError while importing test module '/tmp/autopkgtest-lxc.l2untem6/downtmp/autopkgtest_tmp/tests/simulator/filternet/test_filternet_movies.py'.
 75s Hint: make sure your test modules/packages have valid Python names.
 75s Traceback:
 75s /usr/lib/python3.12/importlib/__init__.py:90: in import_module
 75s     return _bootstrap._gcd_import(name[level:], package, level)
 75s tests/simulator/filternet/test_filternet_movies.py:5: in <module>
 75s     from bmtk.utils.sim_setup import build_env_filternet
 75s /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/bmtk/utils/sim_setup.py:32: in <module>
 75s     from distutils.dir_util import copy_tree
 75s E   ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'distutils'


This blocks migration of other packages which bmtk depends on.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: trixie/sid
  APT prefers unstable-debug
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 6.10.11-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_AU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_AU:en
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled