Christian Heimes <li...@cheimes.de> added the comment:

What do you mean by "that"? Python never had any code to parse and handle 
freekdesktop.org's os-release file. Are you referring to linux_distribution() 
function? Petr removed platform.linux_distribution() in bpo-28167 because the 
function was problematic on so many levels and relied on ill defined behavior.

The os-release file has been a well-defined standard for over 8 years. These 
days it's available in the base image of all major Linux distributions and 
countless other distributions. os-release became *the* standard to identify the 
version and vendor of a Linux distribution. In my opinion that's reason enough 
to include the feature.

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