Add preferred-modules option and check

This allow users to specify a set of preferred modules that
should be used instead of other modules.

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions

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   Close #2684
 
+* Add ``preferred-module`` checker that notify if an import has a replacement module that should be used.
+
+  This check is emitted when ``pylint`` finds an imported module that has a
+  preferred replacement listed in ``preferred-modules``.
+
 * ``assigning-non-slot`` not emitted for classes with unknown base classes.
 
   Close #2807