[Distutils] SOLVED: bdist_rpm and pre-release python packages / eggs (was: pre-release versioning problems with sdist, bdist_rpm, bdist_debian)

[Gerry Reno]

Manuel Amador (Rudd-O) wrote:
> 1) The Python StrictVersion and LooseVersion classes in Setuptools 
> used to validate and compare versions are incompatible with RPM's 
> lexicographical order. Even the setuptools metadata documentation, 
> which is in full force and implemented, says alpha and beta and rc are 
> expressly permitted (and ENCOURAGED) in the version name, and 
> setuptools' dependency resolution actually uses that information. 
Then this is a 'setuptools' ERROR.  Go fix it in setuptools.  If 
setuptools creates lexigraphically stupid version and release strings 
that are incompatible with RPM then that is a 'setuptools' problem, NOT 
a bdist_rpm problem.

Go fix 'setuptools'.


Again,  I'm a big -1 on this patch.  There is nothing broken in 
'bdist_rpm'.   But there is obviously something broken in 'setuptools'.


Regards,
Gerry

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