[issue26544] platform.libc_ver() returns incorrect version number

[Matthias Klose]

Matthias Klose <doko at debian.org> added the comment:

please don't close this yet.  the patch introduces a dependency on the distutils package.  I don't see any reason to compare the libc version as a python egg version, so please avoid that.

if we need to have a module to compare arbitrary version strings, then we should think about adding one in the standard library, but I think that's what the packaging module is for.

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nosy: +doko

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