Bug#1076957: basemap: FTBFS: ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'numpy.distutils'

[Vladimir Petko]

Dear Maintainers,

Would it be possible to consider updating to 1.4.0[1] that adds Python
3.12 support and resolves this issue?

Best Regards,
 Vladimir.

[1] https://github.com/matplotlib/basemap/releases/tag/v1.4.0