diff --git a/.github/workflows/main.yml b/.github/workflows/main.yml
index f35e0a4..ab850cf 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/main.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/main.yml
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ jobs:
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     strategy:
       matrix:
-        python: ["3.7", "3.8", "3.9", "3.10", "3.11"]
+        python: ["3.8", "3.9", "3.10", "3.11"]
 
     steps:
       - uses: actions/checkout@v3
diff --git a/HISTORY.rst b/HISTORY.rst
index 7d004c1..3094ed8 100644
--- a/HISTORY.rst
+++ b/HISTORY.rst
@@ -12,6 +12,8 @@ Unreleased
 
 **Bugfixes**
 
+* move from disutils (removed on python 3.12) to setuptools
+
 **Improvements**
 
 * I18N overwrite option
diff --git a/marabunta/config.py b/marabunta/config.py
index 99dfb41..e0994f3 100644
--- a/marabunta/config.py
+++ b/marabunta/config.py
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 # -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
 # Copyright 2016-2017 Camptocamp SA
 # License AGPL-3.0 or later (http://www.gnu.org/licenses/agpl.html)
-from distutils.util import strtobool
+from .strtobool import strtobool
 import argparse
 import os
 
diff --git a/marabunta/strtobool.py b/marabunta/strtobool.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..1a7ad55
--- /dev/null
+++ b/marabunta/strtobool.py
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+_MAP = {
+    "y": True,
+    "yes": True,
+    "t": True,
+    "true": True,
+    "on": True,
+    "1": True,
+    "n": False,
+    "no": False,
+    "f": False,
+    "false": False,
+    "off": False,
+    "0": False,
+}
+
+
+def strtobool(value):
+    try:
+        return _MAP[str(value).lower()]
+    except KeyError as error:
+        raise ValueError(f'"{value}" is not a valid bool value') from error