distutils is deprecated from Python's standard library, to be removed in Python 2.12

[rockaut]

SUMMARY

We need to check if we use this

ansible-collections/overview#45 (comment)

ISSUE TYPE

• Bug Report

[rockaut]

I fear that will get a PITA. There are some ways to replace it easily but only for python 3. I haven't found anything for python 2 yet.

Could somebody please have a look at: ansible-collections/community.general#3936

Do I read it correctly, that we may use the Ansible builtin class which falls back to distutils for older releases if not found. We should be somewhat save then because may only fail in some unsupported cases?

I commented a question there but as I read it it will be only in the community.general collection not in the core package. This is not great.

[D3DeFi]

I think that we don't have to worry about Py2.12 at all :) They had a type there. distutils will be deprecated only for Py3.12

[rockaut]

I work on this currently (also on #596). I have an idea where we don't have dependencies at all.

[D3DeFi]

Also the fixes proposed to you there - e.g. ansible-collections/community.postgresql#178 looks as a good solution

[rockaut]

Good find. I will implement this.

[felixfontein]

Please consider creating a follow-up PR based on ansible-collections/community.general#3984.

[rockaut]

Thanks @felixfontein will do!