Distutils version classes are deprecated

[lukasjuhrich]

Issue

The following line (and many similar ones) causes a deprecation warning when I build my docs:

sphinx-paramlinks/sphinx_paramlinks/sphinx_paramlinks.py

Line 386 in c43e8f0

if LooseVersion(__version__) >= LooseVersion("4.0.0"):

/opt/pycroft/venv/lib/python3.10/site-packages/sphinx_paramlinks/sphinx_paramlinks.py:386: DeprecationWarning: distutils Version classes are deprecated. Use packaging.version instead.                                                                                                                  
  if LooseVersion(__version__) >= LooseVersion("4.0.0"):                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 

Setup

• Python 3.10.10
• Sphinx==5.1.1
• sphinx-paramlinks==0.5.4

Context

Unfortunately I don't know much about the details, other than:

• distutils being deprecated
• https://packaging.pypa.io/en/latest/version.html being the relevant packaging docs.