Add deprecation messages for namespace_packages #3262
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The docs in https://setuptools.pypa.io/en/latest/userguide/package_discovery.html and https://packaging.python.org/en/latest/guides/packaging-namespace-packages/ suggest that this field is deprecated.
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Motivation
The docs in https://setuptools.pypa.io/en/latest/userguide/package_discovery.html
and https://packaging.python.org/en/latest/guides/packaging-namespace-packages/
seem to suggest that using
namespace_packagesis a deprecated practice.Summary of changes
namespace_packagesSetuptoolsDeprecationWarningfor the other deprecations insetup.cfg(SetuptoolsDeprecationWarningis used broadly instead ofDeprecationWarningin the code base to make sure the warning message is not accidentally silenced.Closes
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