[Python-apps-team] Bug#919793: prospector won't run at all

[VA]

Package: prospector
Version: 0.12.7-2
Severity: important

Wherever I try to run prospector, it just fails with this backtrace:

Traceback (most recent call last):
   File "/usr/bin/prospector", line 11, in <module>
     load_entry_point('prospector==0.12.7', 'console_scripts', 
'console_script')()
   File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 
487, in load_entry_point
     return get_distribution(dist).load_entry_point(group, name)
   File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 
2728, in load_entry_point
     return ep.load()
   File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 
2346, in load
     return self.resolve()
   File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 
2352, in resolve
     module = __import__(self.module_name, fromlist=['__name__'], level=0)
   File "/usr/share/prospector/prospector/run.py", line 8, in <module>
     from prospector import blender, postfilter, tools
   File "/usr/share/prospector/prospector/tools/__init__.py", line 7, in 
<module>
     from prospector.tools.pylint import PylintTool
   File "/usr/share/prospector/prospector/tools/pylint/__init__.py", 
line 6, in <module>
     from pylint.config import find_pylintrc
   File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/pylint/config.py", line 58, in 
<module>
     from pylint import utils
   File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/pylint/utils.py", line 56, in 
<module>
     from astroid import nodes, Module
   File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/astroid/__init__.py", line 63, 
in <module>
     from astroid.nodes import *
   File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/astroid/nodes.py", line 23, in 
<module>
     from astroid.node_classes import (
   File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/astroid/node_classes.py", line 
38, in <module>
     from astroid import bases
   File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/astroid/bases.py", line 33, in 
<module>
     MANAGER = manager.AstroidManager()
   File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/astroid/util.py", line 26, in 
<lambda>
     lambda: importlib.import_module("." + module_name, "astroid")
   File "/usr/lib/python3.6/importlib/__init__.py", line 126, in 
import_module
     return _bootstrap._gcd_import(name[level:], package, level)
   File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/astroid/manager.py", line 25, in 
<module>
     from astroid import modutils
   File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/astroid/modutils.py", line 35, 
in <module>
     from distutils.sysconfig import get_python_lib  # pylint: 
disable=import-error
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'distutils.sysconfig'