From 1fa15b74e0af756535abf107264fb32eea0c0568 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Patrick Cloke <clokep@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Wed, 20 Jan 2021 16:00:59 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] Specify that the long description is rST in the package
 metadata. (#9180)

This avoids a warning when uploading packages to PyPI via twine.
---
 changelog.d/9180.misc | 1 +
 setup.py              | 1 +
 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 changelog.d/9180.misc

diff --git a/changelog.d/9180.misc b/changelog.d/9180.misc
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..69dd86110d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/changelog.d/9180.misc
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Add a `long_description_type` to the package metadata.
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 9730afb41b..ddbe9f511a 100755
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -121,6 +121,7 @@ setup(
     include_package_data=True,
     zip_safe=False,
     long_description=long_description,
+    long_description_content_type="text/x-rst",
     python_requires="~=3.5",
     classifiers=[
         "Development Status :: 5 - Production/Stable",