From 2b919107b5fefef8d99e26359ea4f2e37d157593 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Holger Nahrstaedt <holgern@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2024 08:42:07 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Remove distutils

---
 conftest.py    | 8 ++++----
 pyproject.toml | 1 +
 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/conftest.py b/conftest.py
index b52739e..03d7841 100644
--- a/conftest.py
+++ b/conftest.py
@@ -7,16 +7,16 @@
 
 import platform
 import sys
-from distutils.version import LooseVersion
+from packaging.version import Version, parse
 
 import pytest
 from _pytest.doctest import DoctestItem
 
 from skopt import _IS_32BIT
 
-PYTEST_MIN_VERSION = '3.3.0'
+PYTEST_MIN_VERSION = '3.6.0'
 
-if LooseVersion(pytest.__version__) < PYTEST_MIN_VERSION:
+if parse(pytest.__version__) < Version(PYTEST_MIN_VERSION):
     raise ImportError(
         'Your version of pytest is too old, you should have '
         'at least pytest >= {} installed.'.format(PYTEST_MIN_VERSION)
@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ def pytest_collection_modifyitems(config, items):
     try:
         import numpy as np
 
-        if LooseVersion(np.__version__) < LooseVersion('1.14'):
+        if parse(np.__version__) < Version('1.14'):
             reason = 'doctests are only run for numpy >= 1.14'
             skip_doctests = True
         elif _IS_32BIT:
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 221f539..55fba54 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -30,6 +30,7 @@ dependencies = [
     "numpy>=1.20.3",
     "scipy>=1.1.0",
     "scikit-learn>=1.0.0",
+    "packaging>=21.3",
 ]
 version = "0.10.0rc1"