Bug#1061143: gobject-introspection: FTBFS with Python 3.12 as default

[Simon McVittie]

On Fri, 19 Jan 2024 at 15:15:23 +0200, Graham Inggs wrote:
> On Fri, 19 Jan 2024 at 14:46, Simon McVittie <smcv at debian.org> wrote:
> > I would guess that the problem is that it still uses python3-distutils
> > (that's being worked on upstream, but slower than I would like), but even
> > though that package Provides python3.12-distutils, it doesn't contain
> > an implementation.
> 
> Matthias Klose found an upstream commit [1] which I've just tested
> now, and it seems to be the only thing needed to get the tests
> passing.

Thanks, I'll apply that for now.

I think a better solution is probably the one I proposed in
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gobject-introspection/-/merge_requests/443
but that's still waiting for upstream review.

    smcv