Missing dependency (python3-distutils) in Ubuntu 18.04 and later

[Fuel]

After installing apt-btrfs-snapshot in Ubuntu 18.04 I got following error messages:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/apt-btrfs-snapshot", line 33, in <module>
    from apt_btrfs_snapshot import AptBtrfsSnapshot
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/apt_btrfs_snapshot.py", line 28, in <module>
    from distutils.spawn import find_executable
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'distutils.spawn'

This was resolved by manually installing 'python3-distutils'.

The dependency should be added to the package.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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

[Mikhail Novosyolov (mikhailnov)]

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apt-btrfs-snapshot/+bug/1778256 fixed this bug

[Orange Shiang-Yuan Kao (orange-kao)]

I have installed apt-btrfs-snapshot 3.5.1 today but the dependencies was not installed automatically.

I still need to install 'python3-distutils' manually.

[Chris (liny-odell)]

This also affects 19.10 so I'm guessing this is waiting on a fix from Debian? The noted debbug is for a similar issue, missing this same depends, but it is for a different package.

[jiaguilera (jiaguilera)]

This also happens on 20.04 (development branch).
Installing manually 'python3-distutils' did the trick.

[kenjo (ken-kenjo)]

I'm confused why is this bug still present in 20.10.

[Waruun (waruun-deactivatedaccount)]

Can confirm that this is still the case in 22.04.

[Christian Ehrhardt  (paelzer)]

I don't know why Michael didn't get to update this bug on apt-btrfs-snapshot, it seems simple.
Maybe he has his just elsewhere today, I subscribed him explicitly to get some attention.

For python-stem tough this is fixed:
Since upstream:
https://gitweb.torproject.org/stem.git/commit/?id=9fa85ec6f751fb060f5dace804dbc3c4c407d77d
And thereby 1.8.0 and due to that Ubuntu Jammy and later.