Bug#1100223: hplip: FTBFS: ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'distutils'

[Agustin Martin <agmartin@debian.org>]

On Wed, Mar 12, 2025 at 04:31:10PM +0000, Santiago Vila wrote:
> Package: src:hplip
> Version: 3.22.10+dfsg0-8
> Severity: serious
> Tags: ftbfs trixie sid
> 
> Dear maintainer:
> 
> During a rebuild of all packages in unstable, your package failed to build:
> 
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> [...]
>  debian/rules clean
> dh clean --buildsystem=autoconf --with python3 --with pyppd
>    dh_auto_clean -O--buildsystem=autoconf
>    dh_autoreconf_clean -O--buildsystem=autoconf
>    debian/rules override_dh_clean
> make[1]: Entering directory '/<<PKGBUILDDIR>>'
> dh_clean
> find . -regextype posix-extended -iregex '.*\.(ldl|ppd|pdf|ps|pcl)\.gz' | xargs gunzip -f ;\
> rm -f *.1
> rm -f prnt/hpijs/platform.h prnt/hpijs/auto-include.h
> find -type d -name build -print0 | xargs -0 -r rm -rf \;
> # We prefer to regenerate these using pyuic
> (cd ui5 && for i in *.ui ; do rm -f ${i%.ui}.py ; done)
> make[1]: Leaving directory '/<<PKGBUILDDIR>>'
> 
> [... snipped ...]

Hi,

Seems that adding python3-setuptools Build-Depends helps here too,

-- 
Agustin

diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index af57477..c228d80 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -33,6 +33,7 @@ Build-Depends:
  python3-dev,
  python3-gi,
  python3-pyqt5,
+ python3-setuptools,
 Standards-Version: 4.6.0
 Vcs-Browser: https://salsa.debian.org/printing-team/hplip.v2
 Vcs-Git: https://salsa.debian.org/printing-team/hplip.v2.git