Warehouse is planning on removing upload support for bdist_dumb, bdist_rpm, bdist_dmg, bdist_msi, and bdist_wininst:

• https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0527/
• Fully implement PEP 527 pypi/warehouse#6792

CPython's distutils deprecated bdist_wininst in 3.8:

• bpo-37481: Deprecate distutils bdist_wininst command python/cpython#14553
• https://discuss.python.org/t/deprecate-bdist-wininst/1929

And is planning on removing bdist_wininst in 3.9:

• bpo-39541: Remove distutils bdist_wininst command python/cpython#18329
• https://discuss.python.org/t/remove-distutils-bdist-wininst-command/3115

In this latter discussion, @pganssle said:

I think the right thing to do here would be to propose removing this [bdist_wininst] in setuptools, and drop the idea of removing it in distutils. The same goes for bdist_rpm and all the other weird non-wheel binary distributions.

What's necessary to deprecate these in setuptools?

PR #1764 deprecates bdist_egg. A similar pattern could be followed to add warnings in run() in bdist_rpm.py and bdist_wininst.py. Does this sound right?

But I'm less clear on bdist_dumb, bdist_dmg and bdist_msi. Are these handled by setuptools, and if so, where?

• bdist_dmg
• bdist_dumb
• bdist_msi Merge with distutils fac564f #3521
• bdist_rpm Deprecate bdist_rpm #2780
• bdist_wininst Deprecate bdist_wininst #2040 Merge with distutils fac564f #3521