[Fedora-packaging] Python Virtual Provides

[Toshio Kuratomi]

I've added Python Virtual Provides to the list of draft guidelines.

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackagingDrafts/Python

There are two parts:
1) introduce virtual provides for python eggs.  Copying from the way we 
do rubygems, this would be:

Provides: pythonegg(SQLAlchemy) = %{version}
Requires: pythonegg(SQLAlchemy) >= 0.3.11

2) introduce virtualprovides for normal python modules:

Provides: python(sqlalchemy) = %{version}
Requires: python(sqlalchemy)

The motivation for this is that David Malcolm (dmalcolm) wrote a proof 
of concept script to show how easy it would be to extract egg dependency 
information as part of the rpm build process.

Since this will be a far reaching change, should it be discussed on 
fedora-devel-list first or whether we want to do both parts?

-Toshio

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