Use shutil.which to find the executable instead to silence the below warning:
$ cat tmp/work/intel_x86_64-poky-linux/core-image-base/1.0-r5/temp/log.do_image_wic
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DEBUG: Executing shell function do_image_wic
/path/layers/oe-core/scripts/wic:27: DeprecationWarning: The distutils package is deprecated and slated for removal in Python 3.12. Use setuptools or check PEP 632 for potential alternatives
from distutils import spawn
INFO: Creating image(s)...
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[RP: Added conversion for missed function reference] Signed-off-by: Mingli Yu <mingli.yu@windriver.com> Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>