From 63bc9b8a4fe922befac8c8b0000d30b22911d797 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Puneeth Chaganti <punchagan@muse-amuse.in>
Date: Fri, 1 Nov 2019 12:45:28 +0530
Subject: [PATCH] zulip: Use distro.linux_distribution instead of platform

Python 3.8 removes `platform.linux_distribution` and `distro` is the
recommended replacement to use for this function.
---
 requirements.txt        | 1 +
 zulip/zulip/__init__.py | 3 ++-
 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index a22c3a9..a8e80eb 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ coverage>=4.4.1
 pycodestyle==2.3.1
 mock
 pytest
+distro
 -e ./zulip
 -e ./zulip_bots
 -e ./zulip_botserver
diff --git a/zulip/zulip/__init__.py b/zulip/zulip/__init__.py
index f0d3638..4159d61 100644
--- a/zulip/zulip/__init__.py
+++ b/zulip/zulip/__init__.py
@@ -36,6 +36,7 @@ import random
 import types
 from distutils.version import LooseVersion
 
+import distro
 from six.moves.configparser import SafeConfigParser
 from six.moves import urllib
 import logging
@@ -463,7 +464,7 @@ class Client(object):
             pass
 
         if vendor == "Linux":
-            vendor, vendor_version, dummy = platform.linux_distribution()
+            vendor, vendor_version, dummy = distro.linux_distribution()
         elif vendor == "Windows":
             vendor_version = platform.win32_ver()[1]
         elif vendor == "Darwin":