STINNER Victor <vstin...@redhat.com> added the comment:

> The patch does not use the version information passed in to calculate the 
> marketing version. That's a problem when passing in low-level information 
> from a system running a different version of macOS (for example passing in 
> the low-level version information from a macOS 10.8 system while the script 
> is running on a macOS 10.14 system).

Right. The function has a weird API. Maybe the function shouldn't be fixed in 
this case. If we don't fix it, I would like to at least document why the 
function doesn't replace Darwin with macOS.

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