s3cmd package requires python distutils package

[Mitchell Thompson]

I use the s3cmd package to securely pull data from amazon S3.

As of the Ubuntu 18 build 18.04.201804100 i could still see that it was working ok.

Now, as of the 11th build, I get the following error attempting to use s3cmd

File "/usr/bin/s3cmd", line 60, in <module>
   from distutils.spawn import find_executable
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'distutils.spawn'

I have tracked the problem back to possible issue with distutils no longer being included as an installable package. I am not 100% sure this is the problem, but when I check my dev box which was built 8am EST on the 10th, i can apt-cache policy see that i have python-distutils.

Can anyone confirm that s3cmd package is broken.

Steps to reproduce:

Install a fresh copy of ubuntu 18.04.201804100

apt-get install -y s3cmd

execute the s3cmd.

EXPECTED RESULT: A list of ways to use the s3cmd

BUG RESULT: Error stating -
File "/usr/bin/s3cmd", line 60, in <module>
   from distutils.spawn import find_executable
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'distutils.spawn'

[Nish Aravamudan (nacc)]

python3-distutils is not a runtime dependency. Investigating why (dh-python3 issue?)

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package s3cmd - 2.0.1-1ubuntu1

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s3cmd (2.0.1-1ubuntu1) bionic; urgency=medium

  * d/control: add run-time dependency on python3-distutils.
    - Upstream has required it in s3cmd since 2007.
    - LP: #1763398

 -- Nishanth Aravamudan <email address hidden> Thu, 12 Apr 2018 09:03:35 -0700