[issue1322] platform.dist() has unpredictable result under Linux

[Marc-Andre Lemburg]

Marc-Andre Lemburg added the comment:

On 06.01.2014 11:53, Vajrasky Kok wrote:
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> Here is the patch to deprecate platform.dist and platform.linux_distribution.
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> nosy: +vajrasky
> Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file33324/deprecate_platform_dist.patch

Thanks. I think we'll need to do this in three steps:

1. pending deprecation in 3.4
2. deprecation in 3.5
3. removal in 3.6

Please also add a note to these steps to the warning text and a deprecation
notice to the documentation.

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