Slightly related Fedora PR: https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/python-daemon/pull-request/8

On 28-Aug-2021, Miro Hron=C4=8Dok wrote:

Don't pull in unused docutils on runtime

This request appears to remove the lines from setup.py but without
addressing the reason they were there?

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Ben Finney ben@benfinney.id.au

It's explained in the commit message.

It's explained in the commit message.

The commit message text is exactly what I was replying to; it doesn't address the question.

The commit message says:

This project has a pyproject.toml file with a build backend specified,
https://github.com/pypa/setuptools/issues/457 is no longer relevant.

The removed lines said:

Docutils is only required for building, but Setuptools can't distinguish
dependencies properly.
See <URL:<a href="https://github.com/pypa/setuptools/issues/457">https://github.com/pypa/setuptools/issues/457>.

https://github.com/pypa/setuptools/issues/457 is not relevant here because pip will use pyproject.toml and install the build dependencies properly only for build.

I am confused by your claim that the commit message doesn't address the question. It explicitly says that the linked issue is no longer relevant here.