bdist_rpm license documented, but not accepted as valid

[melicertes]

BPO	985478

^{Note: these values reflect the state of the issue at the time it was migrated and might not reflect the current state.}

Show more details

GitHub fields:

assignee = None
closed_at = <Date 2004-08-05.23:48:59.000>
created_at = <Date 2004-07-05.16:14:56.000>
labels = ['library']
title = 'bdist_rpm license documented, but not accepted as valid'
updated_at = <Date 2004-08-05.23:48:59.000>
user = 'https://bugs.python.org/melicertes'

bugs.python.org fields:

activity = <Date 2004-08-05.23:48:59.000>
actor = 'melicertes'
assignee = 'none'
closed = True
closed_date = None
closer = None
components = ['Distutils']
creation = <Date 2004-07-05.16:14:56.000>
creator = 'melicertes'
dependencies = []
files = []
hgrepos = []
issue_num = 985478
keywords = []
message_count = 4.0
messages = ['21414', '21415', '21416', '21417']
nosy_count = 1.0
nosy_names = ['melicertes']
pr_nums = []
priority = 'normal'
resolution = None
stage = None
status = 'closed'
superseder = None
type = None
url = 'https://bugs.python.org/issue985478'
versions = ['Python 2.3']

[melicertes]

The distutils documentation at
http://docs.python.org/dist/postinstallation-script.html#SECTION000620000000000000000
states that the RPM copyright field can be set using
the distutils setup script option "licence", but it is
refused as invalid by distutils:

$ /usr/bin/python2.3 setup.py bdist_rpm --licence="GNU
GPL v.2"
usage: setup.py [global_opts] cmd1 [cmd1_opts] [cmd2
[cmd2_opts] ...]
   or: setup.py --help [cmd1 cmd2 ...]
   or: setup.py --help-commands
   or: setup.py cmd --help

error: option --licence not recognized

It's also refused (same error message output, except
for spelling) with the spelling "license". Both
spellings are also
rejected as errors if placed in setup.cfg's [bdist_rpm]
section:

$ /usr/bin/python2.3 setup.py bdist_rpm
running bdist_rpm
error: error in setup.cfg: command 'bdist_rpm' has no
such option 'license'

[melicertes]

Logged In: YES
user_id=1064824

This was tested with Python 2.3.4 final, by the way. The
behaviour was unchanged in earlier release candidates.

[melicertes]

Logged In: YES
user_id=1064824

No response?

I can't use distutils to create RPMs if I can't specify the
license. Normally I'd just write my own spec file and use
the --spec-file option, but the docs say this isn't
implemented yet.

[melicertes]

Logged In: YES
user_id=1064824

My error, influenced by imprecise documentation. The docs
make it sound like this can be supplied as a setup.cfg
parameter, but it's actually a parameter of the setup()
function.