[Python-checkins] bpo-28167: bump platform.linux_distribution removal to 3.8 (GH-6669) (GH-6862)

[Petr Viktorin]

https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/f4fdb619ddb5b00178c79c2b90adc45075b5f17d
commit: f4fdb619ddb5b00178c79c2b90adc45075b5f17d
branch: 3.7
author: Miss Islington (bot) <31488909+miss-islington at users.noreply.github.com>
committer: Petr Viktorin <encukou at gmail.com>
date: 2018-05-15T13:30:06-04:00
summary:

bpo-28167: bump platform.linux_distribution removal to 3.8 (GH-6669) (GH-6862)

Also bump PendingDeprecationWarning to DeprecationWarning.
(cherry picked from commit 9eb40bc38de83e6ad3fad1931bba1cd36ae88c24)

Co-authored-by: Matthias Bussonnier <bussonniermatthias at gmail.com>

files:
A Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-05-02-07-26-29.bpo-28167.7FwDfN.rst
M Doc/library/platform.rst
M Lib/platform.py
M Lib/test/test_platform.py

diff --git a/Doc/library/platform.rst b/Doc/library/platform.rst
index eea0abbae4d4..f5cb52cb4745 100644
--- a/Doc/library/platform.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/platform.rst
@@ -248,7 +248,8 @@ Unix Platforms
 
    This is another name for :func:`linux_distribution`.
 
-   .. deprecated-removed:: 3.5 3.7
+   .. deprecated-removed:: 3.5 3.8
+      See alternative like the `distro <https://pypi.org/project/distro>`_ package.
 
 .. function:: linux_distribution(distname='', version='', id='', supported_dists=('SuSE','debian','redhat','mandrake',...), full_distribution_name=1)
 
@@ -266,7 +267,8 @@ Unix Platforms
    parameters.  ``id`` is the item in parentheses after the version number.  It
    is usually the version codename.
 
-   .. deprecated-removed:: 3.5 3.7
+   .. deprecated-removed:: 3.5 3.8
+      See alternative like the `distro <https://pypi.org/project/distro>`_ package.
 
 .. function:: libc_ver(executable=sys.executable, lib='', version='', chunksize=2048)
 
diff --git a/Lib/platform.py b/Lib/platform.py
index dc981ec144cc..20f9817f4ffb 100755
--- a/Lib/platform.py
+++ b/Lib/platform.py
@@ -302,7 +302,7 @@ def linux_distribution(distname='', version='', id='',
                        full_distribution_name=1):
     import warnings
     warnings.warn("dist() and linux_distribution() functions are deprecated "
-                  "in Python 3.5", PendingDeprecationWarning, stacklevel=2)
+                  "in Python 3.5", DeprecationWarning, stacklevel=2)
     return _linux_distribution(distname, version, id, supported_dists,
                                full_distribution_name)
 
@@ -376,7 +376,7 @@ def dist(distname='', version='', id='',
     """
     import warnings
     warnings.warn("dist() and linux_distribution() functions are deprecated "
-                  "in Python 3.5", PendingDeprecationWarning, stacklevel=2)
+                  "in Python 3.5", DeprecationWarning, stacklevel=2)
     return _linux_distribution(distname, version, id,
                                supported_dists=supported_dists,
                                full_distribution_name=0)
@@ -1345,7 +1345,7 @@ def platform(aliased=0, terse=0):
                 'ignore',
                 r'dist\(\) and linux_distribution\(\) '
                 'functions are deprecated .*',
-                PendingDeprecationWarning,
+                DeprecationWarning,
             )
             distname, distversion, distid = dist('')
         if distname and not terse:
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_platform.py b/Lib/test/test_platform.py
index 2cf4d3f5dfdb..5f1e28a5d950 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_platform.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_platform.py
@@ -353,14 +353,14 @@ def test_linux_distribution_encoding(self):
 class DeprecationTest(unittest.TestCase):
 
     def test_dist_deprecation(self):
-        with self.assertWarns(PendingDeprecationWarning) as cm:
+        with self.assertWarns(DeprecationWarning) as cm:
             platform.dist()
         self.assertEqual(str(cm.warning),
                          'dist() and linux_distribution() functions are '
                          'deprecated in Python 3.5')
 
     def test_linux_distribution_deprecation(self):
-        with self.assertWarns(PendingDeprecationWarning) as cm:
+        with self.assertWarns(DeprecationWarning) as cm:
             platform.linux_distribution()
         self.assertEqual(str(cm.warning),
                          'dist() and linux_distribution() functions are '
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-05-02-07-26-29.bpo-28167.7FwDfN.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-05-02-07-26-29.bpo-28167.7FwDfN.rst
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..a4971e5b77ba
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-05-02-07-26-29.bpo-28167.7FwDfN.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+The function ``platform.linux_ditribution`` and ``platform.dist`` now
+trigger a ``DeprecationWarning`` and have been marked for removal in Python
+3.8