[Bug]: distutils is deprecated

[makubacki]

Is there an existing issue for this?

• I have searched existing issues

Bug Type

• Firmware
• Tool
• Unit Test

Code first?

• Yes

What packages are impacted?

BaseTools

Which targets are impacted by this bug?

No response

Current Behavior

The pythonx.x-distutils package provided the standard distutils module.

We are using an Ubuntu 22.04 container and found distutils is deprecated. In the deadsnakes PPA python3.12.7-1+jammy1 to python3.12.8-1+jammy1 update on 12/04/2024, the following diff was made:

https://launchpadlibrarian.net/761821028/python3.12_3.12.7-1+jammy1_3.12.8-1+jammy1.diff.gz

In that, python3.12-distutils is no longer a built package per PEP-0632.

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The only code found to be using distutils in edk2 is:

• PyEfiCompressor
  • BaseTools/Source/C/PyEfiCompressor/setup.py
• Brotli
  • BaseTools/Source/C\BrotliCompres/brotli/python/tests/_test_utils.py
  • MdeModulePkg/Library/BrotliCustomDecompressLib/brotli/setup.py

Expected Behavior

The codebase needs to no longer depend on distutils.

Migration advice is here: https://peps.python.org/pep-0632/#migration-advice

Steps To Reproduce

Search the edk2 codebase *.py files for distutils.

Build Environment

- OS(s): Ubuntu 22.04
- python3.12.8-1+jammy1

Version Information

Commit: 258f2d1563c366bf73932f80737776baa71b7ab5 (master)

Urgency

Medium

Are you going to fix this?

Someone else needs to fix it

Do you need maintainer feedback?

Maintainer feedback requested

Anything else?

No response

[makubacki]

@bexcran & @mdkinney - It looks like BaseTool/Source/C/PyEfiCompressor/setup.py has not been used in a while. Do you know its current status?