MAINT: allow distutils when packaging is not available (#2058) (#2060)

(cherry picked from commit dd3e088)

Co-authored-by: msa <[email protected]>

Author: mergify[bot]

.circleci/deselect_tests.py

@@ -22,7 +22,12 @@
 import warnings
 
 import sklearn
-from packaging.version import Version
+
+try:
+    from packaging.version import Version
+except ImportError:
+    from distutils.version import LooseVersion as Version
+
 from sklearn import __version__ as sklearn_version
 from yaml import FullLoader
 from yaml import load as yaml_load

daal4py/sklearn/_utils.py

@@ -30,7 +30,10 @@
 
 import logging
 
-from packaging.version import Version
+try:
+    from packaging.version import Version
+except ImportError:
+    from distutils.version import LooseVersion as Version
 
 try:
     from pandas import DataFrame