[Rpm-maint] [rpm-software-management/rpm] Python module's name changed unnecessarily, making it impossible to express dependencies on it (#373)

[Neal Gompa (ニール・ゴンパ)]

> But as you say, that never previously did work, so anyone who's previously tried and not just given up when 'rpm' didn't work must surely have landed on 'rpm-python', like I did.

Actually, what they did was just not specify it at all in setuptools. As I said before, a lot of distributions didn't install the egg data _at all_, so the old name wouldn't work either.

> The ideal solution would be to come up with something that will allow both 'requires rpm' and 'requires rpm-python' to work. I think there's probably some way to do this, I just don't know what it is yet.

I'd be happy to provide a way for the old name to map to the current one, but it seems the Python community believes such a capability is unnecessary...

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