Investigate dropping python-wheel from ELN

[hroncok]

With the current python-setuptools version, it is no longer needed to use python-wheel to build wheels.

I assume that the majority of packages that use wheel at build time do not need to do that. Let's investigate getting rid of it at least in ELN.

https://tiny.distro.builders/view-rpm--view-eln--python3-wheel.html

• ansible-core Do not require wheel for building ansible/ansible#85533
• meson Do not require wheel for building mesonbuild/meson#15312
• python-dateutil Do not require wheel for building dateutil/dateutil#1434
• python-ruamel-yaml-clib https://sourceforge.net/p/ruamel-yaml-clib/code/merge-requests/5/
• python-tornado Do not require wheel for building tornadoweb/tornado#3524
• python-tpm2-pytss Do not require wheel for building tpm2-software/tpm2-pytss#664
• pyusb Do not require wheel for building pyusb/pyusb#534
• Cython Do not require wheel for building cython/cython#7084
• PyYAML fix: don't import deprecated "wheel" (just to do nothing with it) yaml/pyyaml#823 (stalled?) https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/PyYAML/pull-request/15
• boom-boot Do not require wheel for building snapshotmanager/boom-boot#160 + https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/boom-boot/pull-request/3
• capstone https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/capstone/pull-request/7
• dtc https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/dtc/pull-request/13
• gpgme https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/gpgme/pull-request/24
• keylime Do not require wheel for building keylime/keylime#1832
• snapm Do not require wheel for building snapshotmanager/snapm#377
• asciidoc https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/asciidoc/pull-request/7 or https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/asciidoc/pull-request/8
• criu https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/criu/pull-request/15
• dbus-python https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/dbus-python/pull-request/9
• libcpuid python: do not require wheel for building anrieff/libcpuid#219 https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/libcpuid/pull-request/6 https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/libcpuid/pull-request/7
• libgpiod https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/libgpiod/pull-request/7
• libselinux https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/libselinux/pull-request/35
• marshalparser Do not require wheel for building fedora-python/marshalparser#37 https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/marshalparser/pull-request/39
• micropipenv Do not require wheel for building thoth-station/micropipenv#321
• pcs Do not require wheel when setuptools is new enough ClusterLabs/pcs#1003 https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/pcs/c/096aab967fd057eee595319516871b334f5a33e4?branch=rawhide pcs no longer needs python3-wheel minimization/content-resolver-input#1470 https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/pcs/pull-request/59
• policycoreutils https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/policycoreutils/pull-request/58
• protobuf https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/protobuf/pull-request/33
• pyproject-rpm-macros https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/pyproject-rpm-macros/pull-request/535
• python-awscrt Use bdist_wheel from setuptools awslabs/aws-crt-python#671
• python-dbusmock https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/python-dbusmock/pull-request/122
• python-iniconfig https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/python-iniconfig/pull-request/7
• python-lxml Do not require wheel for building lxml/lxml#469
• python-meson-python https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/python-meson-python/pull-request/12
• python-pam Do not require wheel for building FirefighterBlu3/python-pam#50 https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/python-pam/pull-request/2
• python-pyqt6-sip https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/python-pyqt6-sip/pull-request/3
• python-resolvelib Drop wheel from direct build dependencies sarugaku/resolvelib#175 https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/python-resolvelib/pull-request/4 or https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/python-resolvelib/pull-request/5
• python-setuptools_scm https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/python-setuptools_scm/pull-request/33
• rteval https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/rteval/pull-request/2
• setroubleshoot https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/setroubleshoot/pull-request/63

A [X] means at least a rawhide build that actually removed the dependency was triggered.

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I am working on this, but it is not urgent.

[hroncok]

https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/libcpuid/pull-request/6 was reverted in https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/libcpuid/c/a4dbe004c08efb4ebd1da24450d15ce5e0de1c23?branch=rawhide

Note that listing the BuildRequires for %pyproject_wheel manually is not supported, and removing wheel from the list breaks the build on Fedora 41 and EPEL 9/10.

The package must use %pyproject_buildrequires instead and wait for (or backport) the upstream PR.

[hroncok]

See also minimization/content-resolver-input#1466

[yselkowitz]

https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/protobuf/pull-request/33