[Python-modules-team] Bug#953139: Bug#953139: BUG #953139 Info on other distros

[Scott Kitterman]

On March 6, 2020 3:05:17 PM UTC, Ron Lovell <ron163264 at gmail.com> wrote:
>I checked a couple of other distros I run. In Arch Linux
>distutils/util.py
>is provided by the base "python" pkg. In openSUSE Tumbleweed it is
>provided
>by python3-base. So among my installations, Debian Buster and Sid are
>the
>odd ducks in that they require an optional pkg installation to provide
>distutils/util.py.

It was part of libpython*-stdlib before Buster, so it's not surprising some packages may not have updated their depends to explicitly specify the new package.

Scott K