[Docutils-develop] commit r9177 remove `bdist_rpm`

[Guenter M. <mi...@us...>]

Dear Adam, dear docutils developers,

the commit r9177 does "Remove ``bdist_rpm`` settings in ``setup.cfg``".
The reasons stated in the commit message are not convincing:

> Docutils does not publish RPMs,

While the Docutils project does not build RPM packages itself and does
not plan to do so, the the [bdist_rpm] section was introduced in response
to a public request in https://sourceforge.net/p/docutils/bugs/122/.

> the command is no longer supported for the Python Package Index. See
> :pep:`527` for further details."

The reason for the [bdist_rpm] section is not publishing on PyPI but
facilitating the inclusion of Docutils in 3rd party software
distributions using the RPM package format.

"python-docutils" RPM packages are part of, e.g., the SuSe and Fedora Linux
distributions.
https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=2022758
https://gitea.opensuse.org/rpm/python-docutils

If there are reasons to stop this support for RPM packagers, this should be
clearly communicated (starting with an "end of service announcement"
in the "Future Changes" section of the RELEASE-NOTES).

Günter