Bump distro from 1.4.0 to 1.6.0

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Bumps distro from 1.4.0 to 1.6.0.

Release notes

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v1.6.0

BACKWARDS COMPATIBILITY:

• Deprecated the distro.linux_distribution() function. Use distro.id(), distro.version() and distro.name() instead [#296]
• Deprecated Python 2.7, 3.4 and 3.5 support. Further releases will only support Python 3.6+

ENHANCEMENTS:

• Added type hints to distro module [#269]
• Added __version__ for checking distro version [#292]
• Added support for arbitrary rootfs via the root_dir parameter [#247]
• Added the --root-dir option to CLI [#161]
• Added fallback to /usr/lib/os-release when /etc/os-release isn't available [#262]

BUG FIXES:

• Fixed subprocess.CalledProcessError when running lsb_release [#261]
• Ignore /etc/iredmail-release file while parsing distribution [#268]
• Use a binary file for /dev/null to avoid TextIOWrapper overhead [#271]

RELEASE:

• Moved repository from nir0s/distro to python-distro/distro on GitHub.

v.1.5.0

BACKWARD COMPATIBILITY:

• Keep output as native string so we can compatible with python2 interface [#248]

ENHANCEMENTS:

BUG FIXES:

• Fix detection of RHEL 6 ComputeNode [#255]
• Fix Oracle 4/5 lsb_release id and names [#250]
• Ignore /etc/plesk-release file while parsing distribution [#246]

TESTS:

• Test on MidnightBSD [#254]

RELEASE:

• Remove build testing on Python 3.3 and add pypy 3.5 and Python 3.7 and 3.8 [#244]
• Fix Windows build due to Appveyor not supporting builds on Python 2.7 anymore [#257]

Additionally, The Python2.6 branch was fixed to support distro version 1.4.0. It is now passing all tests. Thanks abadger!

Changelog

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1.6.0 (2021.7.30)

BACKWARDS COMPATIBILITY:

• Deprecated the distro.linux_distribution() function. Use distro.id(), distro.version() and distro.name() instead [#296]
• Deprecated Python 2.7, 3.4 and 3.5 support. Further releases will only support Python 3.6+

ENHANCEMENTS:

• Added type hints to distro module [#269]
• Added __version__ for checking distro version [#292]
• Added support for arbitrary rootfs via the root_dir parameter [#247]
• Added the --root-dir option to CLI [#161]
• Added fallback to /usr/lib/os-release when /etc/os-release isn't available [#262]

BUG FIXES:

• Fixed subprocess.CalledProcessError when running lsb_release [#261]
• Ignore /etc/iredmail-release file while parsing distribution [#268]
• Use a binary file for /dev/null to avoid TextIOWrapper overhead [#271]

RELEASE:

• Moved repository from nir0s/distro to python-distro/distro on GitHub.

1.5.0 (2020.3.30)

BACKWARD COMPATIBILITY:

• Keep output as native string so we can compatible with python2 interface [#248]

ENHANCEMENTS:

BUG FIXES:

• Fix detection of RHEL 6 ComputeNode [#255]
• Fix Oracle 4/5 lsb_release id and names [#250]
• Ignore /etc/plesk-release file while parsing distribution [#246]

TESTS:

• Test on MidnightBSD [#254]

RELEASE:

• Remove build testing on Python 3.3 and add pypy 3.5 and Python 3.7 and 3.8 [#244]
• Fix Windows build due to Appveyor not supporting builds on Python 2.7 anymore [#257]

Additionally, The Python2.6 branch was fixed to support distro version 1.4.0. It is now passing all tests. Thanks abadger!

Commits

• 116cdad Fix release date for 1.6.0
• 64946a1 Release v1.6.0
• b6dd149 Simplify tox and GitHub actions configuration
• 80458de Fix warnings while building documentation
• 529c9cf Recreate docsumentation config with modern options
• f947776 Formally deprecate distro.linux_distribution()
• f7371a4 Update platform.linux_distribution links to Python 3.7
• a3da4d4 Replace setup.py with declarative setup.cfg
• b5a1a1e Honors /usr/lib/os-release when /etc/os-release is not available (#262)
• 53a031d Use binary file for devnull (#271)
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