Switch from the deprecated distutils module to the packaging module

The distutils module was removed in Python 3.12.

.gitlab-ci.yml

@@ -11,11 +11,11 @@ cache:
     - _ccache/
 
 variables:
-  FEDORA_IMAGE: "registry.gitlab.gnome.org/gnome/glib/fedora:v23"
+  FEDORA_IMAGE: "registry.gitlab.gnome.org/gnome/glib/fedora:v24"
   COVERITY_IMAGE: "registry.gitlab.gnome.org/gnome/glib/coverity:v7"
-  DEBIAN_IMAGE: "registry.gitlab.gnome.org/gnome/glib/debian-stable:v17"
+  DEBIAN_IMAGE: "registry.gitlab.gnome.org/gnome/glib/debian-stable:v18"
   ALPINE_IMAGE: "registry.gitlab.gnome.org/gnome/glib/alpine:v0"
-  MINGW_IMAGE: "registry.gitlab.gnome.org/gnome/glib/mingw:v13"
+  MINGW_IMAGE: "registry.gitlab.gnome.org/gnome/glib/mingw:v14"
   MESON_TEST_TIMEOUT_MULTIPLIER: 4
   G_MESSAGES_DEBUG: all
   MESON_COMMON_OPTIONS: "--buildtype debug --wrap-mode=nodownload --fatal-meson-warnings"
@@ -607,6 +607,7 @@ macos-x86_64:
     - source .venv/bin/activate
     - pip3 install meson==1.2.3
     - pip3 install ninja==1.11.1
+    - pip3 install packaging==23.2
   script:
     # FIXME: Use --wrap-mode=default so we download dependencies each time,
     # until the macOS runner is a VM where we can use a pre-made image which

.gitlab-ci/debian-stable.Dockerfile

@@ -35,6 +35,7 @@ RUN apt-get update -qq && apt-get install --no-install-recommends -qq -y \
     locales \
     ninja-build \
     python3 \
+    python3-packaging \
     python3-pip \
     python3-setuptools \
     python3-wheel \

.gitlab-ci/fedora.Dockerfile

@@ -47,6 +47,7 @@ RUN dnf -y update \
     ninja-build \
     pcre2-devel \
     "python3-dbusmock >= 0.18.3-2" \
+    python3-packaging \
     python3-pip \
     python3-pygments \
     python3-wheel \

.gitlab-ci/mingw.Dockerfile

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-FROM registry.gitlab.gnome.org/gnome/glib/fedora:v23
+FROM registry.gitlab.gnome.org/gnome/glib/fedora:v24
 
 USER root
 

gio/gdbus-2.0/codegen/utils.py

@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@
 #
 # Author: David Zeuthen <davidz@redhat.com>
 
-import distutils.version
+import packaging.version
 import os
 import sys
 
@@ -166,4 +166,4 @@ def version_cmp_key(key):
         v = str(key[0])
     else:
         v = "0"
-    return (distutils.version.LooseVersion(v), key[1])
+    return (packaging.version.Version(v), key[1])