fix: Replace deprecated distutils

[Moraxyc]

• fix: Replace deprecated distutils
• fix: conform PEP 440

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Is This a Code Change?

• Non-code related change (markdown/git settings etc)
• Code Change
• Example/Test Code Change

Validation

• Have you ran tox?
• Have you ran pytest?
• Do the tests pass?

It seems tox test is broken, I got a lot of failures even though using original code.

Pytest:

platform linux -- Python 3.12.3, pytest-8.2.1, pluggy-1.5.0
==== 170 passed, 3 warnings in 10.58s ====

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[Moraxyc]

From Brett Cannon:

Our normal Version class is strict when it comes to Python packaging version support,
so that probably covers what you want. Otherwise you can also use
packaging.utils.canonical_version() if you want even more strict string output.

[Moraxyc]

PEP 440
Version Identification and Dependency Specification

[greg-db]

Thanks for putting this together! I'll ask the team to review this.