Trying to work around the issue

dev-libs/glib/files/glib-2.78.4-distutils.patch

@@ -0,0 +1,36 @@
+https://bugs.gentoo.org/922654
+https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/glib/-/issues/3134
+https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/glib/-/commit/6ef967a0f930ce37a8c9b5aff969693b34714291
+
+[sam: Trimmed the CI changes.]
+
+From 6ef967a0f930ce37a8c9b5aff969693b34714291 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: Jordan Williams <jordan@jwillikers.com>
+Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2023 09:53:50 -0600
+Subject: [PATCH] Switch from the deprecated distutils module to the packaging
+ module
+
+The distutils module was removed in Python 3.12.
+---
+
+--- a/gio/gdbus-2.0/codegen/utils.py
++++ b/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])
+-- 
+GitLab
+
+