I have the same issue referenced in this bug report.
The previous version that shipped with mantic (0.8.2-1 built from
Debian) does correctly depend on python3-distutils, however
python3-distutils was dropped from the noble repo. Accordingly the
Ubuntu maintainer of the package incremented the version number to
0.8.2-1ubuntu1 and removed the dependency.
The problem with that is the fact that diffuse 0.8.2 depends on the
distutils Python module hasn't changed. I can see that the new version
0.9.0 from the developer removes all use of distutils, solving the issue
once and for all on all future versions of Ubuntu (i.e. 24.10+) that
ship the new version; however LTS users will have continue to have this
dependency issue until 26.04.
I'm not familiar with Ubuntu packaging procedure, regardless I hope a
solution can be found beyond downloading the source package and manually
editing the control file.
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Package "diffuse" has a dependency on package "python3-distutils-
extra" which is not automatically installed.
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