[Buildroot] [PATCH v4 3/3] package/python3: bump version to 3.12.1

[Thomas Petazzoni]

Hello Adam,

On Mon, 18 Dec 2023 15:04:56 -0700
Adam Duskett <adam.duskett at amarulasolutions.com> wrote:

> Python 3.12.1 has removed distutils support. As such, we remove the distutils
> option from pkg-python.mk as well.
> 
> Tested on Fedora 39, and Debian 11. All 68 package tests pass.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Adam Duskett <adam.duskett at amarulasolutions.com>
> ---
> v3 -> v4:
>   - Drop distutils in pkg-python.mk
>   - 3.12.0 -> 3.12.1

I applied, but after doing a number of changes. The most important one
is that I had to reintroduce some of our --disable options: for
ncurses, sqlite and expat. Indeed, without these, you ended up with the
Python code installed, but not the correspond native library (the
py_cv_module__<something>=n/a only disables building the native
library).

I split up the pkg-python.mk change into a separate commit, which is
made before the python 3.12 bump. Indeed, it's semantically separate.

Finally, I updated the Buildroot manual to no longer mention distutils
support. And I did a separate commit to update the Buildroot manual
with other _SETUP_TYPE values that we support.

Thanks!

Thomas
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