Use 'py-version' when accounting for max/min version of checker (#7580)

Co-authored-by: Pierre Sassoulas <pierre.sassoulas@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Daniël van Noord <13665637+DanielNoord@users.noreply.github.com>

1 files changed, 18 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/pylint/message/message_definition.py b/pylint/message/message_definition.py
index 3b403b008..a44e6b780 100644
--- a/pylint/message/message_definition.py
+++ b/pylint/message/message_definition.py
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@
 from __future__ import annotations
 
 import sys
+import warnings
 from typing import TYPE_CHECKING, Any
 
 from astroid import nodes
@@ -70,11 +71,24 @@ class MessageDefinition:
     def __str__(self) -> str:
         return f"{repr(self)}:\n{self.msg} {self.description}"
 
-    def may_be_emitted(self) -> bool:
-        """Return True if message may be emitted using the current interpreter."""
-        if self.minversion is not None and self.minversion > sys.version_info:
+    def may_be_emitted(
+        self,
+        py_version: tuple[int, ...] | sys._version_info | None = None,
+    ) -> bool:
+        """Return True if message may be emitted using the configured py_version."""
+        if py_version is None:
+            py_version = sys.version_info
+            warnings.warn(
+                "'py_version' will be a required parameter of "
+                "'MessageDefinition.may_be_emitted' in pylint 3.0. The most likely"
+                "solution is to use 'linter.config.py_version' if you need to keep "
+                "using this function, or to use 'MessageDefinition.is_message_enabled'"
+                " instead.",
+                DeprecationWarning,
+            )
+        if self.minversion is not None and self.minversion > py_version:
             return False
-        if self.maxversion is not None and self.maxversion <= sys.version_info:
+        if self.maxversion is not None and self.maxversion <= py_version:
             return False
         return True