Specify that the long description is rST in the package metadata. (#9180)

This avoids a warning when uploading packages to PyPI via twine.

2 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions

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",