Avocado 88.1 vs Python 3.12

[Richard Henderson]

Hi guys,

I have reinstalled my development box to ubuntu 24 (because the Rust support is better 
than my previous install; ho hum).  I thought I had tested everything in a VM before 
committing, but I missed out on Avocado:

>   AVOCADO Downloading avocado tests VM image for aarch64
> Failed to load plugin from module "avocado.plugins.list": ModuleNotFoundError("No 
> module named 'imp'") :
>   File 
> "/home/rth/qemu/bld/pyvenv/lib/python3.12/site-packages/avocado/core/extension_manager.py",
>  line 63, in __init__
>     plugin = ep.load()
>              ^^^^^^^^^
>   File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 2518, 
> in load
>     return self.resolve()
>            ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>   File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 2524, 
> in resolve
>     module = __import__(self.module_name, fromlist=['__name__'], level=0)
>              ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>   File 
> "/home/rth/qemu/bld/pyvenv/lib/python3.12/site-packages/avocado/plugins/list.py", 
> line 19, in <module>
>     from avocado.core import exit_codes, loader, parser_common_args
>   File 
> "/home/rth/qemu/bld/pyvenv/lib/python3.12/site-packages/avocado/core/loader.py", line 
> 20, in <module>
>     import imp

If I understand things correctly, the python "imp" package was deprecated, and has been 
removed before v3.12.  This is fixed in upstream avocado as of v93.  But we have a hard 
stop in pythondeps.toml at v92.

Remind me what the blocker is to upgrading?


r~