Build failure: fdroidserver

[jchv]

Steps To Reproduce

Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. nix build .#fdroidserver

Build log

https://gist.github.com/jchv/bfbdc6f796b650b61bdd00860d4adf38

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Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
  File "<string>", line 1, in <lambda>
  File "/nix/store/z7xxy35k7620hs6fn6la5fg2lgklv72l-python3-3.12.4/lib/python3.12/importlib/__init__.py", line 90, in import_module
    return _bootstrap._gcd_import(name[level:], package, level)
           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 1387, in _gcd_import
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 1360, in _find_and_load
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 1331, in _find_and_load_unlocked
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 935, in _load_unlocked
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap_external>", line 995, in exec_module
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 488, in _call_with_frames_removed
  File "/nix/store/zzgwcw24zfp0lja7mb305154xzsj82f4-fdroidserver-unstable-2023-10-23/lib/python3.12/site-packages/fdroidserver/__init__.py", line 34, in <module>
    from fdroidserver.common import (verify_apk_signature,
  File "/nix/store/zzgwcw24zfp0lja7mb305154xzsj82f4-fdroidserver-unstable-2023-10-23/lib/python3.12/site-packages/fdroidserver/common.py", line 60, in <module>
    from distutils.version import LooseVersion
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'distutils'

Additional context

Git bisect predictably found the culprit as 737b5cd, so it is related to the Python 3.12 upgrade. I suspect that all setuptools-based modules are broken; e.g. .#python3Packages.yq also stops building. Interestingly, .#python312Packages.yq built before, but not after. Not sure what that implies.

Notify maintainers

(Originally I had notified the Python team, but I removed them from this list because I am suspecting this regression may not be the result of any problem with the version flip itself, but the broken packages instead. Sorry.)

Notifying @linsui @jugendhacker from fdroidserver maintainers.

Metadata

Please run nix-shell -p nix-info --run "nix-info -m" and paste the result.

$ nix shell nixpkgs#nix-info -c nix-info -m
 - system: `"x86_64-linux"`
 - host os: `Linux 6.9.2, NixOS, 24.11 (Vicuna), 24.11.20240703.9f4128e`
 - multi-user?: `yes`
 - sandbox: `yes`
 - version: `nix-env (Nix) 2.18.4`
 - channels(root): `"nixos"`
 - channels(john): `""`
 - nixpkgs: `/nix/store/qgbn0imyridkb9527v6gnv6z3jzzprb9-source`

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