Comment # 2 on bug 1178257 from Fabian Vogt

I don't know much about pythondistdeps, but I remember that a year ago there
was some discussion about that, resulting in

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Fri Dec  6 15:30:48 CET 2019 - mls@suse.de

- disable pythondist requires generator for now
  * modified patch: fileattrs.diff

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Wed Nov 20 11:56:20 CET 2019 - mls@suse.de

- drop python3-setuptools dependency from rpm-build, the package
  is not part of ring-0

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Tue Nov  5 16:25:53 UTC 2019 - Neal Gompa <ngompa13@gmail.com>

- Fix shebang for pythondistdeps.py to use Python 3
  + Modify patch: pythondistdeps.diff
- Move pythondistdeps dependency generator to rpm-build
- Add python3-setuptools and python3 dependencies to rpm-build for
pythondistdeps

It might be possible to use the same approach for pythondistdeps as for
pkgconfigdeps. Packages for which pythondistdeps needs python3-setuptools
installed generate an rpmlint warning and miss their corresponding
autoprovides/-requires, and BuildRequires: python3-setuptools has to be added
manually. This would require a new rpmlint check and pythondistdeps.py would
have to handle the case that setuptools is not present.