On Tue, 23 Jun 2020 at 18:37, Adam Williamson <adamwill(a)fedoraproject.org>
wrote:
IMBW, but I think I recall the Python packaging guidelines
specifically
said that you could or should (I forget which) just BR python-devel and
not BR python-setuptools at some point. At this point there seems to be
no explicit mention, but the sample spec file looks a lot like a
project that uses setuptools, but does not explicitly BuildRequire
it...
From the Python packaging guidelines here:
https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/packaging-guidelines/Python/
*Packages building for Python 3 will need BuildRequires: python3-devel.*
And also this:
*Packages MAY use the automatic Python dependency generator. This generator
uses upstream egg/dist metadata (such as setuptool’s install_requires
<
https://python-packaging.readthedocs.io/en/latest/dependencies.html>) *
Considering the file vs dir difference in metadata storage, I would say
it's fair to expect dependencies to be strict.
I myself don't have any Python packages yet, but I'll try to pay extra
attention to python3-setuptools in the future :).