@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ import tempfile

 from copy import copy

 from optparse import OptionParser, Option, OptionValueError, IndentedHelpFormatter

 from logging import debug, info, warning, error

-from distutils.spawn import find_executable

+from shutil import which

 from ssl import SSLError

 import io

@@ -2274,7 +2274,7 @@ def run_configure(config_file, args):

         ]

     ## Option-specfic defaults

     if getattr(cfg, "gpg_command") == "":

-        setattr(cfg, "gpg_command", find_executable("gpg"))

+        setattr(cfg, "gpg_command", which("gpg"))

     if getattr(cfg, "proxy_host") == "" and os.getenv("http_proxy"):

         autodetected_encoding = locale.getpreferredencoding() or "UTF-8"