community.general/changelogs/fragments/platform-dist-to-nir0s-distro.yaml

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minor_changes:
- Python-3.8 removes platform.dist() from the standard library. To maintain
  compatibility we've switched to an alternative library, nir0s/distro, to
  detect the distribution for fact gathering.  Distributions facts may change
  slightly as nir0s/distro has bugfixes which the standard library's
  platform.dist() has lacked.
Port from plaform.dist to ansible.module_utils.distro.linux_distribution ci_complete 2018-12-11 02:04:14 +01:00			`---`
			`minor_changes:`
			`- Python-3.8 removes platform.dist() from the standard library. To maintain`
Add a porting guide entry for ansible_distribution facts (#50251) * Add a porting guide entry for ansible_distribution facts Switching away from platform.distro() will cause changes sometimes due to the new code using new sources of information that may be out of sync with the old ones. Just have to make people aware of that and also what we are doing to mitigate it when appropriate. * wordsmithed, added links for new distro backend 2019-01-04 19:03:56 +01:00			`compatibility we've switched to an alternative library, nir0s/distro, to`
			`detect the distribution for fact gathering. Distributions facts may change`
			`slightly as nir0s/distro has bugfixes which the standard library's`
			`platform.dist() has lacked.`