Solution I fixed this for myself with Claude Code's help. I had to downgrade to Python 3.12 and install `setuptools` to provide the missing `distutils` module. Figured it made sense to document it.

Ok, so I have a python program that I'm working on that has a regular old distutils setup.py. I wouldn't imagine that it would be that difficult to get a deb out of it, but I don't seem to find an ...

In my mind, the main friction for building wheels is the current (very complex) setup.py which uses the (very complicated) distutils to build the wheel. b2 builds the shared library that is the native ...