test_distutils: test_check_metadata_deprecated fails if docutils-0.19 are installed

[mgorny]

Bug report

If docutils-0.19 are installed system-wide while running CPython's test suite, the following test fails:

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FAIL: test_check_metadata_deprecated (distutils.tests.test_register.RegisterTestCase.test_check_metadata_deprecated)
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Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/mgorny/git/cpython/Lib/distutils/tests/test_register.py", line 296, in test_check_metadata_deprecated
    self.assertEqual(len(w.warnings), 1)
AssertionError: 70 != 1

Apparently it's caused by multiple instances of the following warning:

/home/mgorny/git/cpython/Lib/distutils/command/check.py:128: DeprecationWarning: The frontend.OptionParser class will be replaced by a subclass of argparse.ArgumentParser in Docutils 0.21 or later.
  settings = frontend.OptionParser(components=(Parser,)).get_default_values()
/home/mgorny/git/cpython/Lib/optparse.py:1000: DeprecationWarning: The frontend.Option class will be removed in Docutils 0.21 or later.
  option = self.option_class(*args, **kwargs)

To reproduce

1. Install docutils-0.19 using the system package manager.
2. ./configure --prefix=/usr
3. make -j$(nproc)
4. make test

Your environment

• CPython versions tested on: 3.11.0
• Operating system and architecture: Gentoo/amd64

[sobolevn]

Note: distutils is deprecated and will be removed in 3.12

[mgorny]

Note: distutils is deprecated and will be removed in 3.12

I know. Perhaps the simplest solution would be to remove that test.