Unvendor distutils.version (#271)

* Unvendor distutils.version.

* Document breaking change.

* Update comment, add StrictVersion.

README.md

@@ -14,6 +14,8 @@ Tested with the current Ansible 2.9, ansible-base 2.10, ansible-core 2.11, ansib
 
 Please note that support for Ansible 2.9 and ansible-base 2.10 has been deprecated and will be dropped from community.docker 3.0.0 on.
 
+This collection does not work with ansible-core before 2.12 (this includes ansible-base and Ansible 2.9) on Python 2.12+.
+
 ## External requirements
 
 Most modules and plugins require the [Docker SDK for Python](https://pypi.org/project/docker/). For Python 2.6 support, use [the deprecated docker-py library](https://pypi.org/project/docker-py/) instead.

changelogs/fragments/271-distutils-vendor-removed.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+minor_changes:
+  - "Remove vendored copy of ``distutils.version`` in favor of vendored copy included with ansible-core 2.12+. For ansible-core 2.11, uses ``distutils.version`` for Python < 3.12. There is no support for ansible-core 2.11 with Python 3.12+ (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.docker/pull/271)."
+breaking_changes:
+  - "This collection does not work with ansible-core 2.11 on Python 3.12+. Please either upgrade to ansible-core 2.12+, or use Python 3.11 or earlier (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.docker/pull/271)."