[PATCH rtems-docs] common/latex.py: use distro module for python3.5 and up

[Vijay Kumar Banerjee]

On Wed, Mar 31, 2021 at 4:19 PM Chris Johns <chrisj at rtems.org> wrote:
>
> Do we need to support platform as well? I have lost track of which Python we
> need build doco. I suspect it is only 3.

platform.dist is deprecated since 3.5 and removed in 3.7, so this was
certainly a piece of code that would fail with python>= 3.7, which
made me think that maybe python2 is still being used to build docs so
kept the platform import.


>
> Chris
>
> On 24/3/21 7:05 am, Vijay Kumar Banerjee wrote:
> > ---
> >  common/latex.py | 7 +++++--
> >  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/common/latex.py b/common/latex.py
> > index a042510..a1b3917 100644
> > --- a/common/latex.py
> > +++ b/common/latex.py
> > @@ -3,8 +3,11 @@
> >  #
> >
> >  import os
> > -import platform
> >  import re
> > +try:
> > +    from distro import linux_distribution
> > +except:
> > +    from platform import linux_distribution
> >
> >  package_test_preamble = ['\\newif\\ifsphinxKeepOldNames \\sphinxKeepOldNamestrue',
> >                           '\documentclass[a4paper,11pt,english]{report}']
> > @@ -82,7 +85,7 @@ def tex_test(test):
> >  def host_name():
> >      uname = os.uname()
> >      if uname[0] == 'Linux':
> > -        distro = platform.dist()
> > +        distro = linux_distribution()
> >          name = '%s/%s' % (uname[0], distro[0])
> >          version = distro[1]
> >      else:
> >