classes/distutils-*: add warning of deprecation

distutils has been deprecated in Python 3.10 and will be removed in
Python 3.12 (predicted release date October 2023).

Add a warning now that recommends using the roughly equivalent
setuptools-* classes.

[YOCTO #14610]

(From OE-Core rev: 54b455049ee94c01c78b31b6c744c8e32b5b7737)

Signed-off-by: Tim Orling <tim.orling@konsulko.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/meta/classes/distutils3.bbclass b/meta/classes/distutils3.bbclass
index be645d37bd..a6d8e8763f 100644
--- a/meta/classes/distutils3.bbclass
+++ b/meta/classes/distutils3.bbclass
@@ -14,6 +14,10 @@ DISTUTILS_PYTHON:class-native = "nativepython3"
 
 DISTUTILS_SETUP_PATH ?= "${S}"
 
+python __anonymous() {
+    bb.warn("distutils3.bbclass is deprecated, please use setuptools3.bbclass instead")
+}
+
 distutils3_do_configure() {
     :
 }