Drop distutils as it is deprecated

[MatthijsBurgh]

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[MatthijsBurgh]

@tfoote @cottsay @mikepurvis please review this PR.

[tfoote]

Sorry for the long delay reviewing. Thanks for contributing this. It's luckily a small tweak.

Can you rebase to a more recent commit to get the CI runs to trigger? Otherwise this looks great to add.

[MatthijsBurgh]

@tfoote rebase done

I need approval for a workflow run

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[MatthijsBurgh]

The version of the git client on windows is 2.51.0.windows.2. It is not accepted by packaging. We either have to do pre-processing. Or keep using the distutils module shipped by setuptools. @cottsay what do you think?

[MatthijsBurgh]

@cottsay please respond to my previous comment

[cottsay]

I don't have any silver bullets here. We clearly need to get away from distutils, so I'd guess we'll have to do some intermediate processing, which is a bummer. I'm open to suggestions.

[MatthijsBurgh]

@cottsay @tfoote please approve workflow run

[MatthijsBurgh]

I have no clue why the CI fails. As it runs on my account, https://github.com/MatthijsBurgh/rosdistro-1/actions/runs/21364087466

I had to restart it a few times. It looks more like a bug in GH actions than a failing pipeline.

[cottsay]

I had to restart it a few times. It looks more like a bug in GH actions than a failing pipeline.

Agreed. Looks like they're finally acknowledging that there's an issue: https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/90hj03y5tj3c

[cottsay]

This will need an update to setup.py and stdeb.cfg to include the new dependency.

[MatthijsBurgh]

This will need an update to setup.py and stdeb.cfg to include the new dependency.

@cottsay Done

[MatthijsBurgh]

@cottsay please approve workflow run and review

[MatthijsBurgh]

@cottsay done, please review