DSC & RHEL 8.x & Python > 3.8 not working

[CoolZeroNL]

DSC extension is not compatible with Python 3.8 and up

2022/10/21 10:16:26 [Microsoft.OSTCExtensions.DSCForLinux] Config decoded correctly.
2022/10/21 10:16:26 Falling back to /etc/os-release distribution parsing
2022/10/21 10:16:26 [Microsoft.OSTCExtensions.DSCForLinux] Install,error,51,rhel; distro_version: 8.5 is not supported.

The function platform.dist & platform.linux_distribution are been removed in python 3.7. So the DSC will use the Fallback to use /etc/os-release. This is working fine, only that RHEL is using a other name as is then is listed in the suppored_list.

# cat /etc/os-release 

NAME="Red Hat Enterprise Linux"
VERSION="8.6 (Ootpa)"
ID="rhel"
ID_LIKE="fedora"
VERSION_ID="8.6"
PLATFORM_ID="platform:el8"
PRETTY_NAME="Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6 (Ootpa)"
ANSI_COLOR="0;31"
CPE_NAME="cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8::baseos"
HOME_URL="https://www.redhat.com/"
DOCUMENTATION_URL="https://access.redhat.com/documentation/red_hat_enterprise_linux/8/"
BUG_REPORT_URL="https://bugzilla.redhat.com/"

REDHAT_BUGZILLA_PRODUCT="Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8"
REDHAT_BUGZILLA_PRODUCT_VERSION=8.6
REDHAT_SUPPORT_PRODUCT="Red Hat Enterprise Linux"
REDHAT_SUPPORT_PRODUCT_VERSION="8.6"

The ID in here is rhel and this is not listed in the supported_dists list.

Running the function separately shows also this:

# python3.6 tmp.py 
red hat-->red hat enterprise linux
['8', '6']

# python3.8 tmp.py 
Falling back to /etc/os-release distribution parsing
Unsupported OS :rhel; distro_version: 8.6
False
rhel
8.6

# python3.9 tmp.py 
Falling back to /etc/os-release distribution parsing
Unsupported OS :rhel; distro_version: 8.6
False
rhel
8.6

[CoolZeroNL]

Opened a PR for this: #1624