pylint-django 2.4.3 Fails with pylint 2.8.0

[VOIDMalkuth]

Description

pylint --load-plugins pylint_django core failed with following exception

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "c:\users\<username>\appdata\local\programs\python\python39\lib\runpy.py", line 197, in _run_module_as_main
    return _run_code(code, main_globals, None,
  File "c:\users\<username>\appdata\local\programs\python\python39\lib\runpy.py", line 87, in _run_code
    exec(code, run_globals)
  File "C:\<projectpath>\venv\Scripts\pylint.exe\__main__.py", line 7, in <module>
  File "C:\<projectpath>\venv\lib\site-packages\pylint\__init__.py", line 24, in run_pylint
    PylintRun(sys.argv[1:])
  File "C:\<projectpath>\venv\lib\site-packages\pylint\lint\run.py", line 279, in __init__
    linter.load_plugin_modules(self._plugins)
  File "C:\<projectpath>\venv\lib\site-packages\pylint\lint\pylinter.py", line 503, in load_plugin_modules
    module = astroid.modutils.load_module_from_name(modname)
  File "C:\<projectpath>\venv\lib\site-packages\astroid\modutils.py", line 212, in load_module_from_name
    return importlib.import_module(dotted_name)
  File "c:\users\<username>\appdata\local\programs\python\python39\lib\importlib\__init__.py", line 127, in import_module
    return _bootstrap._gcd_import(name[level:], package, level)
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 1030, in _gcd_import
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 1007, in _find_and_load
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 680, in _load_unlocked
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap_external>", line 790, in exec_module
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 228, in _call_with_frames_removed
  File "C:\<projectpath>\venv\lib\site-packages\pylint_django\__init__.py", line 6, in <module>
    from pylint_django import plugin
  File "C:\<projectpath>\venv\lib\site-packages\pylint_django\plugin.py", line 5, in <module>
    from pylint_django.checkers import register_checkers
  File "C:\<projectpath>\venv\lib\site-packages\pylint_django\checkers\__init__.py", line 3, in <module>
    from pylint_django.checkers.models import ModelChecker
  File "C:\<projectpath>\venv\lib\site-packages\pylint_django\checkers\models.py", line 11, in <module>
    from pylint_django.utils import node_is_subclass, PY3
  File "C:\<projectpath>\venv\lib\site-packages\pylint_django\utils.py", line 9, in <module>
    from pylint_django.compat import Uninferable
  File "C:\<projectpath>\venv\lib\site-packages\pylint_django\compat.py", line 28, in <module>
    LOAD_CONFIGURATION_SUPPORTED = pylint.__pkginfo__.numversion >= (2, 3)
AttributeError: module 'pylint.__pkginfo__' has no attribute 'numversion'

The same command worked fine before I updated pylint from 2.7.4 and astroid from 2.5.3

Environment

asgiref==3.3.4
astroid==2.5.5
colorama==0.4.4
coverage==5.5
Django==3.2
djangorestframework==3.12.4
isort==5.8.0
lazy-object-proxy==1.6.0
mccabe==0.6.1
pylint==2.8.0
pylint-django==2.4.3
pylint-plugin-utils==0.6
pytz==2021.1
sqlparse==0.4.1
toml==0.10.2
wrapt==1.12.1

[atodorov]

Fix in #321.