unused-private-member bug

[socketpair]

Bug description

class SomeClass:
    def method(self):
        self.__clsmethod()

    @staticmethod
    def __staticmethod():
        pass

    @classmethod
    def __clsmethod(cls):
        cls.__staticmethod()

Configuration

No response

Command used

pylint a.py

Pylint output

W0238: Unused private member `SomeClass.__staticmethod()` (unused-private-member)

Expected behavior

no error

Pylint version

pylint 2.9.6

OS / Environment

No response

Additional dependencies

No response

[Pierre-Sassoulas]

Thank you for opening the issue.

I'm going to close as a duplicate of #4849. The issue has been fixed in latest pylint version (probably 2.11.0). 2.9.6 is very old, you should probably upgrade :)