Add pypi module version overrides

Enable selectively removing version dependencies for a given set of
python modules. The motiviation for this change is to avoid breaking
package builds when there are packages that often lag pypi in updating
their max version requirements.

Signed-off-by: William Douglas <william.douglas@intel.com>

README.rst

@@ -324,6 +324,20 @@ series
   0001-my-awesome-patch.patch -d some/subdir -p1
   ```
 
+pypi_overrides
+  This file contains a list of modules to remove version tests on during the
+  build. It also modifies the requirement of the requires.txt egg if it
+  exists in the package. For example:
+
+  ```
+  colorama
+  ```
+  in the file will cause this modification:
+  ```
+  -    'colorama>=0.2.5,<0.4.4',
+  +    'colorama',
+  ```
+
 golang_libpath
   When building go packages, the go import path will be guessed automatically
   (e.g. building ``https://github.com/go-yaml/yaml/`` would get

autospec/config.py

@@ -96,6 +96,7 @@ class Config(object):
         self.install_append = []
         self.service_restart = []
         self.patches = []
+        self.pypi_overrides = []
         self.verpatches = OrderedDict()
         self.extra_sources = []
         self.autoreconf = False
@@ -891,6 +892,8 @@ class Config(object):
             self.config_opts['security_sensitive'] = True
             self.rewrite_config_opts()
 
+        self.pypi_overrides += self.read_conf_file(os.path.join(self.download_path, "pypi_overrides"))
+
         content = self.read_conf_file(os.path.join(self.download_path, "configure"))
         self.extra_configure = " \\\n".join(content)
 

autospec/specfiles.py

@@ -1363,6 +1363,8 @@ class Specfile(object):
         self._write_strip("export MAKEFLAGS=%{?_smp_mflags}")
         if self.config.subdir:
             self._write_strip("pushd " + self.config.subdir)
+        for module in self.config.pypi_overrides:
+            self._write_strip(f"pypi-dep-fix.py . {module}")
         self._write_strip("python3 setup.py build  " + self.config.extra_configure)
         self._write_strip("\n")
         if self.tests_config and not self.config.config_opts['skip_tests']: