The `imp` module got removed in python 3.12 and the `importlib` module should be
used instead.
This is also a good excuse to switch to the new finder module from PEP 451 :
https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0451/
This only requires implement the `find_spec()` method in our custom loaders
Co-authored-by: Stefan <107316-stefan6419846@users.noreply.gitlab.freedesktop.org>
Co-authored-by: Jordan Petrids <jordan@centricular.com>
Part-of: <https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gstreamer/-/merge_requests/5633>
... in favour of dep.get_variable('foo', ..) which in some
cases allows for further cleanups in future since we can
extract variables from pkg-config dependencies as well as
internal dependencies using this mechanism.
Part-of: <https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gstreamer/-/merge_requests/1183>