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>

plugins/action/synchronize.py

@@ -18,8 +18,8 @@ from __future__ import (absolute_import, division, print_function)
 __metaclass__ = type
 
 import os.path
-import shlex
 from collections.abc import MutableSequence
+from shlex import quote as shlex_quote
 
 from ansible import constants as C
 from ansible.module_utils.common.text.converters import to_text
@@ -427,13 +427,13 @@ class ActionModule(ActionBase):
 
             if self._remote_transport in DOCKER + PODMAN:
                 if become and self._play_context.become_user:
-                    _tmp_args['rsync_opts'].append('--rsh=' + shlex.quote('%s exec -u %s -i' % (self._docker_cmd, self._play_context.become_user)))
+                    _tmp_args['rsync_opts'].append('--rsh=' + shlex_quote('%s exec -u %s -i' % (self._docker_cmd, self._play_context.become_user)))
                 elif user is not None:
-                    _tmp_args['rsync_opts'].append('--rsh=' + shlex.quote('%s exec -u %s -i' % (self._docker_cmd, user)))
+                    _tmp_args['rsync_opts'].append('--rsh=' + shlex_quote('%s exec -u %s -i' % (self._docker_cmd, user)))
                 else:
-                    _tmp_args['rsync_opts'].append('--rsh=' + shlex.quote('%s exec -i' % self._docker_cmd))
+                    _tmp_args['rsync_opts'].append('--rsh=' + shlex_quote('%s exec -i' % self._docker_cmd))
             elif self._remote_transport in BUILDAH:
-                _tmp_args['rsync_opts'].append('--rsh=' + shlex.quote('buildah run --'))
+                _tmp_args['rsync_opts'].append('--rsh=' + shlex_quote('buildah run --'))
 
         # run the module and store the result
         result.update(self._execute_module('ansible.posix.synchronize', module_args=_tmp_args, task_vars=task_vars))

plugins/modules/synchronize.py

@@ -367,6 +367,9 @@ EXAMPLES = r'''
 import os
 import errno
 
+# TODO(Python2): shlex.quote was added in Python 3.3. This module may run on
+# target hosts with Python 2.7 (e.g., older RHEL systems in CI integration tests).
+# Remove the try/except fallback to pipes.quote when Python 2 support is dropped.
 try:
     from shlex import quote as shlex_quote
 except ImportError: