Building RPM Subpackages with bdist_rpm

[ghost]

Originally reported by: vitalyisaev2 (Bitbucket: vitalyisaev2, GitHub: vitalyisaev2)

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Hello everybody,

Unfortunately I didn't manage to find out in the documentation if setuptools module supports the building of RPM subpackages. Subpackages are really useful things when you maintain the big project and you need to sparse them to the several differing packages (<main_package>, -libs, -devel, -debuginfo).

It would be convenient to do the same in a purely Pythonic projects (i mean to place something in setup.py and to obtain the output spec-file with a corresponding number of

#!spec

%package <subpackage_name>

sections). Thank you.

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• Bitbucket: https://bitbucket.org/pypa/setuptools/issue/205

[abravalheri]

Hello, I suppose we can close this issue now that bdist_rpm has been deprecated. Moreover, it seems that the Python packaging ecosystem has moved into a different direction and the recent PEPs indicate that each individual package will require its own pyproject.toml.

Maybe some clever trick with tox/nox and file templates could be used to achieve the desired results?

If anyone would like to reopen this issue, please feel free to write a new comment with more information or other use cases that we might be missing 😄.