[Bug 1936697] Re: Unlisted dependency

[Jessica Clarke]

pbuilder-dist is a wrapper provided by ubuntu-dev-tools, not pbuilder
itself. Moreover, ubuntu-dev-tools only Suggests: pbuilder, though at
the same time python3-distutils is a pretty tiny package (that's also
fairly useful) so adding that dependency as Recommends: rather than just
Suggests: (to be clear, there isn't even a Suggests: currently) to try
and ensure the wrapper works if you happen to have pbuilder installed
might make sense.

** Package changed: pbuilder (Ubuntu) => ubuntu-dev-tools (Ubuntu)

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Title:
  Unlisted dependency

Status in ubuntu-dev-tools package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  I am using pbuilder 0.231build1 on Ubuntu 21.04 Hirsute. I tried to
  run "pbuilder-dist hirsute create" and received this error:

  Traceback (most recent call last):
    File "/usr/bin/pbuilder-dist", line 32, in <module>
      import distutils.spawn
  ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'distutils.spawn'

  I tried it three more times and the same thing kept happening, so then
  I took a closer look at the error message, and decided to "apt search"
  for a Python distutils package in the repos. I found
  python3-distutils, and installed it, then I tried running pbuilder-
  dist again and it succeeded.

  Therefore, the fix for this bug is to add python3-distutils as a
  dependency of pbuilder.

  Thank you and have a good day!

  Signed,
  Computerworm01001

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 21.04
  Package: pbuilder 0.231build1
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.11.0-22.23-generic 5.11.21
  Uname: Linux 5.11.0-22-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu65.1
  Architecture: amd64
  CasperMD5CheckResult: unknown
  CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
  Date: Fri Jul 16 15:36:23 2021
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2021-07-15 (1 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 18.04.5 LTS "Bionic Beaver" - Release amd64 (20200806.1)
  PackageArchitecture: all
  ProcEnviron:
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: pbuilder
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to hirsute on 2021-07-16 (0 days ago)

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