[issue11678] Add support for Arch Linux to platform.linux_distributions()

[Marc-Andre Lemburg]

Marc-Andre Lemburg added the comment:

Éric Araujo wrote:
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> Éric Araujo <merwok at netwok.org> added the comment:
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> Feature freeze just came by; sorry we missed this.
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> Given our recent-ish discussion about additions to mimetypes (and the consensus (IIRC) that matching the IANA database can be considered a bug fix), I wonder if detecting more OSes in platform should be considered a new feature.  On one end we have mimetypes when there is just a dictionary update with no risk, on the other end we have ports to new OSes which clearly are new features; I think platform is on the fence, maybe just a bit on the new feature side.

I'm fine with adding new OS support to platform in bugfix releases.

The idea is to support as many platforms as possible and if a popular
one is missing, that's a bug.

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