don't use distutils.copy_file, but instead shutil.copy

Dell/recovery_backend.py

@@ -36,7 +36,6 @@
 import tarfile
 import shutil
 import datetime
-import distutils.dir_util
 import lsb_release
 from hashlib import md5
 
@@ -374,8 +373,7 @@ def _process_driver_fish(self, driver_fish, assembly_tmp):
             if dest is not None:
                 if not os.path.isdir(dest):
                     os.makedirs(dest)
-                distutils.file_util.copy_file(fishie, dest,
-                                              verbose=1, update=0)
+                shutil.copy(fishie, dest)
 
 
     def start_sizable_progress_thread(self, input_str, mnt, w_size):
@@ -480,9 +478,7 @@ def assemble_image(self,
                     new_name += '.zip'
                 elif os.path.exists(fishie) and tarfile.is_tarfile(fishie):
                     new_name += '.tgz'
-                distutils.file_util.copy_file(fishie,
-                                              os.path.join(dest, new_name),
-                                              verbose=1, update=0)
+                shutil.copy_file(fishie, os.path.join(dest, new_name))
 
         #If dell-recovery needs to be injected into the image
         if dell_recovery_package:
@@ -497,7 +493,7 @@ def assemble_image(self,
                 (out, err) = call.communicate()
             else:
                 logging.debug("Adding manually included dell-recovery package, %s", dell_recovery_package)
-                distutils.file_util.copy_file(dell_recovery_package, dest)
+                shutil.copy(dell_recovery_package, dest)
 
         function = getattr(Backend, create_fn)
         function(self, assembly_tmp, version, iso, platform, no_update)

Dell/recovery_common.py

@@ -92,8 +92,6 @@ def white_tree(action, whitelist, src, dst='', base=None):
 
 def _tree(action, list, src, dst, base, white):
     """Helper function for tree calls"""
-    from distutils.file_util import copy_file
-
     if base is None:
         base = src
         if not base.endswith('/'):
@@ -131,8 +129,7 @@ def _tree(action, list, src, dst, base, white):
             if action == "copy":
                 if not os.path.isdir(dst):
                     os.makedirs(dst)
-                copy_file(src_name, dst_name, preserve_mode=1,
-                          preserve_times=1, update=1, dry_run=0)
+                shtuil.copy(src_name, dst_name)
                 outputs.append(dst_name)
 
             elif action == "size":

debian/control

@@ -22,7 +22,6 @@ Depends: ${python3:Depends},
          python3-apt,
          python3-dbus,
          python3-debian,
-         python3-distutils,
          python3-gi,
          udisks2,
          uuid-runtime,