[issue11913] sdist refuses README.rst

Berker Peksag added the comment: PR 563 has been merged. -- assignee: merwok -> components: -Distutils2 nosy: +berker.peksag, dstufft resolution: -> fixed stage: needs patch -> resolved status: open -> closed type: behavior -> enhancement versions: +Python 3.7

[issue11913] sdist refuses README.rst

STINNER Victor added the comment: New changeset f9f87f0934ca570293ba7194bed3448a7f9bf39c by Victor Stinner (Ryan Gonzalez) in branch 'master': bpo-11913: Add README.rst to the distutils standard READMEs list (#563)

[issue11913] sdist refuses README.rst

Ryan Gonzalez added the comment: FWIW, I opened a PR for this: https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/563 -- nosy: +refi64 ___ Python tracker ___

[issue11913] sdist refuses README.rst

Changes by Ryan Gonzalez : -- pull_requests: +754 ___ Python tracker ___ ___

[issue11913] sdist refuses README.rst

Changes by Antoine Pitrou : -- resolution: wont fix -> stage: resolved -> needs patch status: closed -> open ___ Python tracker ___

[issue11913] sdist refuses README.rst

Éric Araujo mer...@netwok.org added the comment: When I upload modules to PyPI, distutils is clucking about a missing README, even though PyPI accepts README.rst, and I am providing that. PyPI doesn’t do anything with README, it displays the value of long_description. warning: sdist:

[issue11913] sdist refuses README.rst

Éric Araujo mer...@netwok.org added the comment: distribute is not a project of python-dev, please use their bug tracker. For distutils, I explained why we can’t change it and proposed a doc change; nobody commented on that. For distutils2, I’m waiting for a reply from Tarek to this question: