[issue38914] Clarify wording for warning message when checking a package

Change by Jürgen Gmach : -- pull_requests: +22160 pull_request: https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/23264 ___ Python tracker ___

[issue38914] Clarify wording for warning message when checking a package

Change by Pablo Galindo Salgado : -- resolution: -> fixed stage: patch review -> resolved status: open -> closed ___ Python tracker ___

[issue38914] Clarify wording for warning message when checking a package

Jürgen Gmach added the comment: This issue can be closed as the related PR was merged. -- ___ Python tracker ___ ___

[issue38914] Clarify wording for warning message when checking a package

miss-islington added the comment: New changeset 9f9dac0a4e58d5c72aa3b644701cb155c009cb2c by Miss Islington (bot) (Jürgen Gmach) in branch 'master': bpo-38914 Do not require email field in setup.py. (GH-17388) https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/9f9dac0a4e58d5c72aa3b644701cb155c009cb2c

[issue38914] Clarify wording for warning message when checking a package

Jürgen Gmach added the comment: Thank you, both of you! I especially appreciate the further information about how setuptools and distutils play together. -- ___ Python tracker

[issue38914] Clarify wording for warning message when checking a package

Paul Ganssle added the comment: For the future, we generally tend to keep distutils pretty "frozen", only making minor changes or the changes needed to build Python itself. Instead we generally make changes in setuptools, which for the moment monkey-patches distutils (and into which

[issue38914] Clarify wording for warning message when checking a package

Jürgen Gmach added the comment: Thank you for your feedback. Paul Ganssle suggested a updated wording over at https://github.com/pypa/pep517/issues/73 so this is why I created a pr accordingly. The intent of this issue and the pr is to minimize the confusion for a beginner with Python

[issue38914] Clarify wording for warning message when checking a package

Change by Éric Araujo : -- type: enhancement -> behavior versions: +Python 3.8, Python 3.9 ___ Python tracker ___ ___

[issue38914] Clarify wording for warning message when checking a package

Éric Araujo added the comment: For your project, if you define maintainer and maintainer-email (with your own info), it’s too bad that adding author results in a warning for missing author-email! The goal of these checks as I understand them is a best effort to encourage projects to contain

[issue38914] Clarify wording for warning message when checking a package

Change by Jürgen Gmach : -- keywords: +patch pull_requests: +16870 stage: -> patch review pull_request: https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/17388 ___ Python tracker ___

[issue38914] Clarify wording for warning message when checking a package

New submission from Jürgen Gmach : When creating a package for PyPi, and naming an author, but not an author_email, you get a warning as follows: warning: Check: missing meta-data: if 'author' supplied, 'author_email' must be supplied too The specs (