Comment # 11 on bug 997614 from Robert Schweikert

I understand that this is not very nice work. However,

deprecated != should not work

a deprecated function should still work as expected until it is removed, which
happens in Python 3.7, not in Python 3.6.

Additionally, on TW:

-> python
Python 2.7.14 (default, Oct 12 2017, 15:50:02) [GCC] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import platform
>>> platform.dist()
('', '', '')

Here the argument of "it's deprecated" is not valid at all as the function is
marked deprecated in 3.5+ . I understand that Python 2 is supposed to disappear
from TW, but in SLE 15 the Legacy Module with contain Python 2 which will have
support for 2 years after release and I expect the behavior of Python 2 in SLE
15 to mimic that of TW, i.e. the function is broken.

On TW:

-> python3
Python 3.6.4 (default, Jan 03 2018, 13:52:55) [GCC] on linux
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import platform
>>> platform.dist()
('', '', '')

".... Features are deprecated rather than immediately removed, to provide
backward compatibility, and to give programmers time to bring affected code
into compliance with the new standard." from [1]. How we are providing a
transition period when we are simply breaking the feature?


[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deprecation