Merge pull request #6839 from effigies/mnt/looseversion

RF: Replace distutils LooseVersion with looseversion

datalad/distribution/create_sibling.py

@@ -11,7 +11,6 @@
 
 __docformat__ = 'restructuredtext'
 
-from distutils.version import LooseVersion
 import logging
 import os
 from os.path import (
@@ -21,6 +20,8 @@
     relpath,
 )
 
+from looseversion import LooseVersion
+
 from datalad import ssh_manager
 
 from datalad.ui import ui

datalad/support/external_versions.py

@@ -13,8 +13,8 @@
 import os.path as op
 from os import linesep
 
-from distutils.version import LooseVersion
 from itertools import chain
+from looseversion import LooseVersion
 
 from datalad.log import lgr
 # import version helper from config to have only one implementation

setup.py

@@ -37,6 +37,7 @@
         'patool>=1.7',
         'tqdm',
         'annexremote',
+        'looseversion',
     ],
     'downloaders': [
         'boto',