packaging.util.check_environ will define HOME and PLAT if they don’t exist; for
some reason, it does not define PLAT when running the tests from a checkout (so
no regrtest warning) but does when running from an installed Python.
Cleaning up the envvar in test_dist fixes the warning on my machine, but I
suspect that a test runner using a different order to run files or running them
in parallel may have PLAT defined in its environment because of another test.
Quite a lot of code ends up calling check_environ; maybe we should just clean
up PLAT in every test. For now I’m doing this simple fix, we’ll see if we get
bug reports.