haproxy complains about missing distutils package

[Anna Savchenko]

When I try to deploy the haproxy charm on Ubuntu 24.04 VM, it complains about a missing package:

2024-07-24 15:11:42 INFO unit.haproxy/0.juju-log server.go:325 Invoking charm-pre-install hooks
2024-07-24 15:11:42 INFO unit.haproxy/0.juju-log server.go:325 Invoking python-based install hook
2024-07-24 15:11:42 WARNING unit.haproxy/0.install logger.go:60 Traceback (most recent call last):
2024-07-24 15:11:42 WARNING unit.haproxy/0.install logger.go:60 File "/var/lib/juju/agents/unit-haproxy-0/charm/hooks/hooks.py", line 18, in <module>
2024-07-24 15:11:42 WARNING unit.haproxy/0.install logger.go:60 from charmhelpers.core.host import pwgen, lsb_release, service_restart
2024-07-24 15:11:42 WARNING unit.haproxy/0.install logger.go:60 File "/var/lib/juju/agents/unit-haproxy-0/charm/hooks/charmhelpers/core/host.py", line 37, in <module>
2024-07-24 15:11:42 WARNING unit.haproxy/0.install logger.go:60 from .hookenv import log, INFO, DEBUG, local_unit, charm_name
2024-07-24 15:11:42 WARNING unit.haproxy/0.install logger.go:60 File "/var/lib/juju/agents/unit-haproxy-0/charm/hooks/charmhelpers/core/hookenv.py", line 21, in <module>
2024-07-24 15:11:42 WARNING unit.haproxy/0.install logger.go:60 from distutils.version import LooseVersion
2024-07-24 15:11:42 WARNING unit.haproxy/0.install logger.go:60 ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'distutils'
2024-07-24 15:11:42 ERROR juju.worker.uniter.operation runhook.go:180 hook "install" (via explicit, bespoke hook script) failed: exit status 1
2024-07-24 15:11:42 INFO juju.worker.uniter resolver.go:180 awaiting error resolution for "install" hook
2024-07-24 15:16:42 INFO juju.worker.uniter resolver.go:180 awaiting error resolution for "install" hook

env: Ubuntu 24.04 VMware VM
charm: latest/edge rev.83

[Jeff Hillman (jhillman)]

It appears noble no longer has python3-distutils, however manually installing python3-distutils-extra gets past this error, but brings up another one

[Peter Jose De Sousa (pjds)]

added some fixes https://code.launchpad.net/~pjds/charm-haproxy/noble/+merge/470042