Add changelog fragment for deprecated imports fix

Added changelog entry documenting the bugfixes for synchronize
and mount modules' deprecated import issues.

Related to #686

Co-authored-by: Cursor AI
Signed-off-by: Pavel Bar <pbar@redhat.com>

changelogs/fragments/686_fix_deprecated_imports.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+---
+bugfixes:
+  - synchronize - fix deprecated ``ansible.module_utils._text`` and ``ansible.module_utils.common._collections_compat`` imports (https://github.com/ansible-collections/ansible.posix/issues/686).
+  - mount - fix deprecated ``ansible.module_utils._text`` import (https://github.com/ansible-collections/ansible.posix/issues/686).

plugins/action/synchronize.py

@@ -18,12 +18,11 @@ from __future__ import (absolute_import, division, print_function)
 __metaclass__ = type
 
 import os.path
+from collections.abc import MutableSequence
+from shlex import quote as shlex_quote
 
 from ansible import constants as C
-from ansible.module_utils.six import string_types
+from ansible.module_utils.common.text.converters import to_text
-from ansible.module_utils.six.moves import shlex_quote
-from ansible.module_utils._text import to_text
-from ansible.module_utils.common._collections_compat import MutableSequence
 from ansible.module_utils.parsing.convert_bool import boolean
 from ansible.plugins.action import ActionBase
 from ansible.plugins.loader import connection_loader
@@ -417,7 +416,7 @@ class ActionModule(ActionBase):
             # Replicate what we do in the module argumentspec handling for lists
             if not isinstance(_tmp_args.get('rsync_opts'), MutableSequence):
                 tmp_rsync_opts = _tmp_args.get('rsync_opts', [])
-                if isinstance(tmp_rsync_opts, string_types):
+                if isinstance(tmp_rsync_opts, str):
                     tmp_rsync_opts = tmp_rsync_opts.split(',')
                 elif isinstance(tmp_rsync_opts, (int, float)):
                     tmp_rsync_opts = [to_text(tmp_rsync_opts)]

plugins/modules/mount.py

@@ -225,8 +225,7 @@ import platform
 
 from ansible.module_utils.basic import AnsibleModule
 from ansible_collections.ansible.posix.plugins.module_utils.mount import ismount
-from ansible.module_utils.six import iteritems
+from ansible.module_utils.common.text.converters import to_bytes, to_native
-from ansible.module_utils._text import to_bytes, to_native
 from ansible.module_utils.parsing.convert_bool import boolean
 
 
@@ -279,7 +278,7 @@ def _set_mount_save_old(module, args):
     old_lines = []
     exists = False
     changed = False
-    escaped_args = dict([(k, _escape_fstab(v)) for k, v in iteritems(args)])
+    escaped_args = dict([(k, _escape_fstab(v)) for k, v in args.items()])
     new_line = '%(src)s %(name)s %(fstype)s %(opts)s %(dump)s %(passno)s\n'
 
     if platform.system() == 'SunOS':