[Distutils] setuptools 0.6c5 released :(

[Phillip J. Eby]

At 05:05 PM 1/9/2007 -0600, Jon Nelson wrote:
>Say, I've got a local patch to setuptools that adds rpm 'Requires'
>lines for all dependencies, which is a huge boon to us that use rpm for
>everything (and rely on /it/ for dependency management). Interested?
>
>It's a pretty small patch, and I'm probably doing it wrong anyway, but
>it works with everything I've thrown at it so far.

The main problem I see is that there is no guaranteed mapping between RPM 
package names and PyPI package names.  I'm also not clear on what scope 
you're trying to deal with the issue in.