From: Timo Furrer <tuxtimo@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 5 Jun 2018 20:14:46 +0000 (+0200)
Subject: bpo-33600: document that platform.linux_distribution() has been removed (GH-7281)
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bpo-33600: document that platform.linux_distribution() has been removed (GH-7281)
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diff --git a/Doc/library/platform.rst b/Doc/library/platform.rst
index 9f64095270a7..3d0743bee211 100644
--- a/Doc/library/platform.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/platform.rst
@@ -270,6 +270,10 @@ Unix Platforms
    parameters.  ``id`` is the item in parentheses after the version number.  It
    is usually the version codename.
 
+   .. note::
+      This function is deprecated since Python 3.5 and removed in Python 3.8.
+      See alternative like the `distro <https://pypi.org/project/distro>`_ package.
+
    .. versionadded:: 2.6
 
 .. function:: libc_ver(executable=sys.executable, lib='', version='', chunksize=2048)