From c1a58907bbfa53fefca531ed95b384eaacb8282f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Brad Warren <bmw@eff.org>
Date: Mon, 1 Nov 2021 10:17:43 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] deprecate get_strict_version

---
 certbot/CHANGELOG.md    |  2 ++
 certbot/certbot/util.py | 12 +++++++-----
 2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/certbot/CHANGELOG.md b/certbot/CHANGELOG.md
index e43057fd7..dd3a7bf21 100644
--- a/certbot/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/certbot/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -20,6 +20,8 @@ Certbot adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/).
     * BF6BCFC89E90747B9A680FD7B6029E8500F7DB16
     * 86379B4F0AF371B50CD9E5FF3402831161D1D280
     * 20F201346BF8F3F455A73F9A780CC99432A28621
+* The function certbot.util.get_strict_version was deprecated and will be
+  removed in a future release.
 
 ### Fixed
 
diff --git a/certbot/certbot/util.py b/certbot/certbot/util.py
index eb1b3edb8..2b3e8cae5 100644
--- a/certbot/certbot/util.py
+++ b/certbot/certbot/util.py
@@ -1,10 +1,7 @@
 """Utilities for all Certbot."""
-# distutils.version under virtualenv confuses pylint
-# For more info, see: https://github.com/PyCQA/pylint/issues/73
 import argparse
 import atexit
 import collections
-import distutils.version
 import errno
 import logging
 import platform
@@ -613,8 +610,13 @@ def get_strict_version(normalized):
     :rtype: distutils.version.StrictVersion
 
     """
-    # strict version ending with "a" and a number designates a pre-release
-    return distutils.version.StrictVersion(normalized.replace(".dev", "a"))
+    warnings.warn("certbot.util.get_strict_version is deprecated and will be "
+                  "removed in a future release.", DeprecationWarning)
+    with warnings.catch_warnings():
+        warnings.simplefilter("ignore", DeprecationWarning)
+        import distutils.version
+        # strict version ending with "a" and a number designates a pre-release
+        return distutils.version.StrictVersion(normalized.replace(".dev", "a"))
 
 
 def is_staging(srv):