[stable-2.10] Guard against allowing ansible to ansible-base upgrades (#70529)

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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 918388b85f516116e2cd7dcf0c12eeb19ab561e9)

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 54b002e1acad1e8d88e81965323d47ddb8c234fb)