commit r9177 remove `bdist_rpm`
Guenter Milde via Docutils-develop <[email protected]>
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Dear Adam, dear docutils developers, the commit r9177 does "Remove ``bdist_rpm`` settings in ``setup.cfg``". The reasons stated in the commit message are not convincing: > Docutils does not publish RPMs, While the Docutils project does not build RPM packages itself and does not plan to do so, the the [bdist_rpm] section was introduced in response to a public request in https://sourceforge.net/p/docutils/bugs/122/. > the command is no longer supported for the Python Package Index. See > :pep:`527` for further details." The reason for the [bdist_rpm] section is not publishing on PyPI but facilitating the inclusion of Docutils in 3rd party software distributions using the RPM package format. "python-docutils" RPM packages are part of, e.g., the SuSe and Fedora Linux distributions. https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=2022758 https://gitea.opensuse.org/rpm/python-docutils If there are reasons to stop this support for RPM packagers, this should be clearly communicated (starting with an "end of service announcement" in the "Future Changes" section of the RELEASE-NOTES). Günter _______________________________________________ Docutils-develop mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/docutils-develop Please use "Reply All" to reply to the list.