%%prep %%build and %%install run ok with the spec but the mock build fails in the %%files section due to:

cp: cannot stat 'LICENSE': No such file or directory

The Manifest file do not include the license file:
https://github.com/yac/rdoupdate/blob/master/MANIFEST.in

Request upstream to include the License text in the pypi tarball, or patch the license text in %%prep.

Upstream provides some test 
https://github.com/yac/rdoupdate/tree/master/tests

So you must run the test in %%chech after build  the package.

You can use these new macros to build python libs:

%build
%py2_build

%install
%py2_install

%check
%{__python2} setup.py test

Also you need to create a python2-%{name} subpackage and include a python provides macro:

%package -n python2-%{name}
Requires:       xxxxx
Recommends:     xxxxx
Summary:        xxxxxx
%{?python_provide:%python_provide python2-%{name}}

Be sure to remove bundled egg.info in prep:
%prep
%setup -q
rm -rf %{name}.egg.info

Please check the current python spec template:

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Python#Example_common_spec_file

williamjmorenor's scratch build of python-rdoupdate-0.14-2.fc22.src.rpm for rawhide failed http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=11617947

* running tests is not possible as they require network access, so it's not a "must"

* fixing MANIFEST.in is indeed required

* drop the Group tag, it's unused.

* I suggest a small change in description tag
Manipulation and validation of RDO YAML update files

* Using new macros is recommended but not mandatory

For the record, Jakub is the upstream maintainer of rdoupdate.


About new python guidelines, I admit they are more consistent but renaming packages to python2-xxx is creating unnecessary issues. I would have preferred that we let the python prefix die with python2 support and keep versioned pythonX
for later major releases of Python. 
As this is not a general purpose module, it's only a dependency of rdopkg and used by a very limited set of people, I don't think it's worth enforcing this.

Did make any progress in this packaging? Provide a python2-name, python3-name and using the python-provides macros is mandatory in Fedora Python Packaging

I think we should close this ticket as rdoupdate is deprecated.

rdoupdate is now deprecated.