Often times when branching packages for EPEL, we discover unnecessary buildrequirements in Fedora spec files. The Python guidelines describe some of those situations relevant to Python packages.

https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/packaging-guidelines/Python/#_linters

Could this tool show users messages about known common buildrequirement removals? The first ones that come to my mind:

• python-mock
• python-coverage
• pytest-runner