Remove depednacy on python3-disutils?

[dmzoneill]

hi,

Distributing certain applications with a dependency on ITPC, have only support for requirements.txt at install time.
Access to packager manager is tricky, as you don't know what package manager there is ahead of time. (orchestratied cloud deployments)

python-iptables has a dependency on python-distutils on some versions of python and isn't available on others.
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'distutils.sysconfig'

Could we move away from this dependency? for later revisions

[floatingstatic]

Bump on this. Why was #340 closed without merging and would it be possible to re-open? I need to use this package in python 3.12 but tripped over this same problem.

[floatingstatic]

Opened #351 to try to address this in a way that may be more backwards compatible than #340 if someone can have a look. Thanks!