[Distutils] Bug with bdist_rpm and version containing '-'

[Giovanni Bajo]

Phillip J. Eby <pje at telecommunity.com> wrote:

> For a more direct fix (patching the bdist_rpm command to handle this
> correctly), see:
>
> http://mail.python.org/pipermail/patches/2005-November/018408.html
>
> Setuptools includes a bdist_rpm subclass that implements the same fix
> for both Python 2.3 and 2.4, so using setuptools is also a workaround
> for this problem.


Thanks for the reference. I will try the patch in the SF tracker but I assume
it's going to work. Can we have that patch applied to the Python tree?

Giovanni Bajo