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. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/2066030 Title: Package "diffuse" has a dependency on package "python3-distutils- extra" which is not automatically installed. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/diffuse/+bug/2066030/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs