Fixing distro deprecation in setup.py and failing installation on pure Debian (#6802)

* Fixed distro deprecation, failing on Debian

* Updated CHANELOG.md for distro deprecation

* Update setup.py

Substituted double occurring list.

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Co-authored-by: Daniel@copernicus <daniel.sperber@mail.uni-mannheim.de>

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -39,6 +39,8 @@
   * Fixed bug causing the `FPixelReader::SavePixelsToDisk(PixelData, FilePath)` function to crash due to pixel array not set correctly.
   * Fixed segfaults in Python API due to incorrect GIL locking under Python 3.10.
   * Fixed the import script, where could use any other TilesInfo.txt if the destination folder has many
+  * Fixed PythonAPI not installing on Debian due to deprecated function of distro in setup.py. Less ambiguous error for other posix platforms.
+
 
 ## CARLA 0.9.14
 

PythonAPI/carla/setup.py

@@ -33,9 +33,10 @@ def get_libcarla_extensions():
 
     if os.name == "posix":
         import distro
-
-        linux_distro = distro.linux_distribution()[0]
-        if linux_distro.lower() in ["ubuntu", "debian", "deepin"]:
+        supported_dists = ["ubuntu", "debian", "deepin"]
+        
+        linux_distro = distro.id().lower()
+        if linux_distro in supported_dists:
             pwd = os.path.dirname(os.path.realpath(__file__))
             pylib = "libboost_python%d%d.a" % (sys.version_info.major,
                                                sys.version_info.minor)
@@ -101,7 +102,7 @@ def get_libcarla_extensions():
             # extra_link_args += ['/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/7/libstdc++.a']
             extra_link_args += ['-lstdc++']
         else:
-            raise NotImplementedError
+            raise NotImplementedError(linux_distro + " not in supported posix platforms: " + str(supported_dists))
     elif os.name == "nt":
         pwd = os.path.dirname(os.path.realpath(__file__))
         pylib = 'libboost_python%d%d' % (