The distutils package is deprecated and scheduled to be removed in Python 3.12. When building the SELinux userspace we currently get warnings like the following: <string>:1: DeprecationWarning: The distutils.sysconfig module is deprecated, use sysconfig instead <string>:1: DeprecationWarning: The distutils package is deprecated and slated for removal in Python 3.12. Use setuptools or check PEP 632 for potential alternatives I am not a Python expert, but everything seems to work with these patches. I would appreciate other people testing this and any Python experts to let me know if this is the right way of replacing distutils. v2: Use sysconfig.get_path('purelib'... when original used get_python_lib(prefix=... and use sysconfig.get_path('platlib'... when original used get_python_lib(plat_specific=1, prefix=... James Carter (5): libselinux: Remove dependency on the Python module distutils libsemanage: Remove dependency on the Python module distutils python: Remove dependency on the Python module distutils scripts: Remove dependency on the Python module distutils README.md: Remove mention of python3-distutils dependency README.md | 1 - libselinux/src/Makefile | 2 +- libselinux/src/setup.py | 2 +- libsemanage/src/Makefile | 2 +- python/semanage/Makefile | 2 +- python/sepolgen/src/sepolgen/Makefile | 2 +- python/sepolicy/sepolicy/gui.py | 2 +- python/sepolicy/setup.py | 2 +- scripts/env_use_destdir | 2 +- scripts/run-scan-build | 2 +- 10 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-) -- 2.38.1