Issue 35186: distutils.command.upload uses deprecated platform.dist with bdist_rpm (original) (raw)
It seems that in issue #1322, platform.dist
was deprecated, and is slated for removal in Python 3.8, but it is currently used in distutils.command.upload.upload_file: https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/6843ffe4533e9f2cde036296fd932fef6f059687/Lib/distutils/command/upload.py#L126
As far as I can tell, this line is hit only when you run python setup.py bdist_rpm upload
, as far as I can tell.
Using the upload
command is itself very deprecated, and is dangerously broken in many ways. See, for example, this setuptools issue: https://github.com/pypa/setuptools/issues/1381
So I see three possible options (two realistic):
Remove the whole "comment" field from the upload, both for bdist_rpm and bdist_dumb. I'm not sure if PyPI uses this for anything, but I highly doubt it.
Have both bdist_rpm and bdist_dumb send a comment based on
platform.platform(terse=1)
Remove the upload command functionality entirely for Python 3.8 with no deprecation warning.
Obviously #3 is the unrealistic one, but it's very tempting. That said, I think we should go with #1 and maybe open a separate issue to actually deprecate the upload
command in distutils (though to be honest we'll probably monkey-patch it out of existence in setuptools within a year and everyone uses setuptools
anyway, so maybe #3 is less unrealistic than it seems).