Noble: ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'distutils'

[Andreas Schildbach]

After an upgrade of my server from Jammy to Noble, I get

```
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/docker-compose", line 33, in <module>
    sys.exit(load_entry_point('docker-compose==1.29.2', 'console_scripts', 'docker-compose')())
             ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/usr/bin/docker-compose", line 25, in importlib_load_entry_point
    return next(matches).load()
           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/usr/lib/python3.12/importlib/metadata/__init__.py", line 205, in load
    module = import_module(match.group('module'))
             ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/usr/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 "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/compose/cli/main.py", line 9, in <module>
    from distutils.spawn import find_executable
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'distutils'
```

I suspect this is missing a dependency declaration?

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 24.04
Package: docker-compose 1.29.2-6ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 6.8.0-31.31-generic 6.8.1
Uname: Linux 6.8.0-31-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.28.1-0ubuntu2
Architecture: amd64
CasperMD5CheckResult: unknown
Date: Thu Apr 25 15:32:27 2024
PackageArchitecture: all
SourcePackage: docker-compose
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to noble on 2024-04-25 (0 days ago)

[Andreas Schildbach (schildbach)]

Not sure if this is the right package, but installing `python3-distutils-extra` seems to fix the issue, but now I'm running into a different problem (https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/docker-compose/+bug/2056735) so I'm not absolutely sure.

[Andreas Schildbach (schildbach)]

Indeed, the Jammy package depended on `python3-distutils` but the Noble package does not. I believe this is a packaging bug.

https://packages.ubuntu.com/jammy/docker-compose
https://packages.ubuntu.com/noble/docker-compose
https://packages.ubuntu.com/noble/python3-compose

[yoyoma2 (sinbad-4273)]

Upgrading from Mantic Minotaur to Noble Numbat also gave me this exact error with docker-compose. So what's the clean/correct solution?

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[yoyoma2 (sinbad-4273)]

I'm a docker noob but installing the v2 plugin and running 'docker compose' instead of 'docker-compose' seems to work around the problem.

sudo apt-get install docker-compose-v2

[yoyoma2 (sinbad-4273)]

It seems that moving to the v2 plugin version of docker compose isn't a bad idea:

https://askubuntu.com/a/1508135/322753