From ebca76b236eda56fce281da41d0913a3e897c0d5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Sunil Mohan Adapa <sunil@medhas.org>
Date: Fri, 1 Mar 2019 15:18:16 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] utils: Introduce abstraction over distutils comparison of
 versions

In future, if the semantics need to better align with Debian's version
comparison, we can implement that easily.

Signed-off-by: Sunil Mohan Adapa <sunil@medhas.org>
Reviewed-by: James Valleroy <jvalleroy@mailbox.org>
---
 plinth/utils.py | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/plinth/utils.py b/plinth/utils.py
index 512755193..5c5562500 100644
--- a/plinth/utils.py
+++ b/plinth/utils.py
@@ -24,10 +24,13 @@ import os
 import random
 import re
 import string
+from distutils.version import LooseVersion
 
 import ruamel.yaml
 from django.utils.functional import lazy
 
+Version = LooseVersion  # Abstraction over distutils.version.LooseVersion
+
 
 def import_from_gi(library, version):
     """Import and return a GObject introspection library."""