Bug#368255: [Build-common-hackers] Bug#368255: FTBFS: Missing Build-Depends (python-setuptools)

[Peter Eisentraut]

Tiago Bortoletto Vaz wrote:
> python-setuptools is missing in Build-Depends fied. It returns fail
> in distutils-3.sh and distutils-4.sh. A simple patch is attached.

I noticed that already.  Out of curiosity, something must have changed 
in python recently because those things have definitely worked in the 
past.  What happened?