Package: dh-python
Version: 6.20240310
Severity: important

I'm sure I'm not alone in having a request [1] to ensure a package
builds without legacy python3-distutils. However, sra-sdk, for one,
uses dh-python, which still depends on python3-distutils. As such,
removing the explicit build dependency wouldn't yet break anything,
but I can't readily tell what would happen with python3-distutils
actually out of the picture. Consequently, I'd appreciate it if
dh-python could please go ahead and either downgrade or outright
remove its dependency on python3-distutils to facilitate determining
what actually still needs it.

Thanks!

[1] https://bugs.debian/org/1065961

-- System Information:
Debian Release: trixie/sid
APT prefers testing-debug
APT policy: (500, 'testing-debug'), (500, 'stable-security'), (500, 'stable-debug'), (500, 'proposed-updates-debug'), (500, 'oldstable-security'), (500, 'testing'), (300, 'unstable-debug'), (300, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386, x32

Kernel: Linux 6.6.13-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_PROPRIETARY_MODULE, TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages dh-python depends on:
ii python3 3.11.6-1
ii python3-distutils 3.11.5-1
ii python3-setuptools 68.1.2-2

dh-python recommends no packages.

Versions of packages dh-python suggests:
ii dpkg-dev 1.22.4
ii flit 3.9.0-2
ii libdpkg-perl 1.22.4
ii python3-build 1.0.3-2
ii python3-installer 0.7.0+dfsg1-2
ii python3-wheel 0.42.0-1

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