Here I was precisely asking about the remaining open 46 bugs [0] that ask to remove the (mostly stale) "python3-distutils" dependencies.
python3-distutils has been removed from Ubuntu since 24.04 [1] and a lot of these 46 packages carry there these single line patch: [2] while some Debian packages are not in Ubuntu at all too. Making these bugs RC now seems like a reasonable idea. [0] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?tag=python3.12;users=debian-python@lists.debian.org;include=subject%3Adistutils [1] https://packages.ubuntu.com/search?keywords=python3-distutils [2] https://patches.ubuntu.com/d/docker-pycreds/docker-pycreds_0.3.0-1.1ubuntu1.patch
