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> Yes, but python packages are not for distributing that kind of software.

Where is that documented? The fact that setuptools and distutils.core supported building RPM packages from a setup.py file indicates that python intended to support application distribution. Why remove that capability when moving to wheels?

> This bears no relevance on wheels, which absolutely should not be filled with district-specific knowledge about init scripts and should definitely not write to random hard-coded paths.

One thing I noted while figuring out this issue is that running:

pip install git+ssh://[e-mail]/org/project.git@1.2.3

versus

pip install project==1.2.3

where project was packaged as a wheel on pypi had different results with regards to where files referenced by the data_files named parameter in the setup call were placed on the file system. Given that, was the change intentional, or is it a bug with how wheels handle package installation?