remove usage of deprecated-module distutis

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distutils will no longer work from Python 3.12

searxng/searxng_extra/update/update_firefox_version.py

Line 16 in 7320b0c

from distutils.version import LooseVersion # pylint: disable=deprecated-module

searxng/searxng_extra/update/update_firefox_version.py

Line 53 in 7320b0c

versions.append(LooseVersion(version))

Untested fix:

from packaging.version import parse
...

    versions.append(parse(version))

PEP-0632 recommends:

The suggested migration path is to use the equivalent (though not identical) imports from > setuptools (see [5]), or to migrate to an alternative build backend (see PEP 517).

Reported by: @josch at searx

In Python 3.10 and 3.11, distutils has been formally marked as deprecated. Code that imports distutils will no longer work from Python 3.12.

searx_extra/update/update_firefox_version.py still uses distutils. Maybe its use of distutils.version can be replaced by the packaging module?

See https://peps.python.org/pep-0632/