[Distutils] Is there a chance for directory globs supported in 'data_files' ?

[Egor Berdnikov]

Hi all,
Some time ago there was a movement towards deprecating MANIFEST.in and
adding directory support to setup()'s 'data_files'.  Is there actually
something against implementing directory globs in 'data_files'?

I'm a little bit lost among current 'sdist' and 'bdist_rpm' options
regarding directories. I'm searching for a solution for 'bdist_rpm'
errors like this one:
    "can't copy 'lib/directory/*': doesn't exist or not a regular file".

Related part of the documentation, a mail list discussion, and a bug:
https://docs.python.org/2/distutils/setupscript.html#installing-additional-files
https://mail.python.org/pipermail/distutils-sig/2009-April/011308.html
http://bugs.python.org/issue5302

-- 
Egor