Debian and Ubuntu ship a python3-minimal package which does not include the distutils module. This is not supported by upstream and can be considered a broken python distribution. In practice, many scripts depend on said module, and this is a reoccuring pain point for building various OpenWrt packages. Require and check for said module, enough time has been wasted on this. A list of just the most recent issues: https://github.com/openwrt/packages/pull/16304 https://github.com/openwrt/packages/pull/16027 https://github.com/openwrt/packages/pull/15443 https://github.com/openwrt/packages/pull/14394 https://github.com/openwrt/packages/pull/12909 https://github.com/openwrt/packages/issues/12443 https://github.com/openwrt/packages/pull/11035 https://github.com/openwrt/packages/issues/10993 Signed-off-by: Andre Heider <a.heider@gmail.com>
