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@@ -700,6 +700,11 @@ Deprecated Python modules, functions and methods
:meth:`~string.Formatter.format` method of the :class:`string.Formatter`
class has been deprecated.
+* :func:`platform.dist` and :func:`platform.linux_distribution` functions are
+ now deprecated and will be removed in Python 3.7. Linux distributions use
+ too many different ways of describing themselves, so the functionality is
+ left to a package.
+ (Contributed by Vajrasky Kok and Berker Peksag in :issue:`1322`.)
Deprecated functions and types of the C API
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