* Fix building Ansible dist w/ setuptools>=48,<49.1 (#70525)
* Fix building Ansible dist w/ setuptools>=48,<49.1
This change addresses the deprecation of the use of stdlib
`distutils`. It's a short-term hotfix for the problem and we'll
need to consider dropping the use of `distutils` from our `setup.py`.
Refs:
* https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/70456
* https://github.com/pypa/setuptools/issues/2230
* https://github.com/pypa/setuptools/commit/bd110264
Co-Authored-By: Jason R. Coombs <jaraco@jaraco.com>
* Add a change note for PR #70525
Co-authored-by: Jason R. Coombs <jaraco@jaraco.com>
(cherry picked from commit 918388b85f)
* Guard against allowing ansible to ansible-base upgrades (#70529)
* Guard against allowing ansible to ansible-base upgrades
* newline
* use alias
* Add an explicit line detailing this is a 1 time thing
* period
* Read __version__ and __author__ rather than import, update working, and add ability to skip conflict checks
* Remove commented code
* Re introduce removed changes from rebase
* Just use open
* Nuke unused import
(cherry picked from commit 54b002e1ac)
Co-authored-by: Sviatoslav Sydorenko <webknjaz@redhat.com>
