RPM build doc_files needs files separated into separate lines

[warthog9]

BPO	30924
Nosy	@ncoghlan, @kushaldas, @warthog9, @shihai1991, @nightlark
PRs	[BPO-30924] [BPO-30925] doc-files separate line and additional files patches #591

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closed_at = <Date 2021-08-22.02:40:47.343>
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labels = ['type-bug', '3.7']
title = 'RPM build doc_files needs files separated into separate lines'
updated_at = <Date 2021-08-22.02:40:47.328>
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url = 'https://bugs.python.org/issue30924'
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[warthog9]

doc-files should break files up into multiple lines, as per RPM expectation

when using %doc section of the RPM spec, it expects multiple files
to be listed each on their own line. Currently what gets passed in
is:

%doc file1 file2 file3

which throws:
error: More than one file on a line: file1
error: More than one file on a line: file2
error: More than one file on a line: file3

Expectation is to break the files up into separate lines:

%doc
file1
file2
file3

which then works as expected with multiple files.

[nightlark]

Should this be closed? It looks like the PR is only changing a file in distutils, and according to https://bugs.python.org/issue30925#msg386350 distutils is deprecated and only release blocking issues will be considered.

[shihai1991]

Should this be closed?
Copy from PEP-632: In Python 3.10 and 3.11, distutils will be formally marked as deprecated. All known issues will be closed at this time.
I close this bpo. If there have some block issues to discuss, we can reopen it again:)