At 07:21 PM 11/1/2007 -0400, Yannick Gingras wrote: >Greetings Catalogers, > I'm the maintainer of a setuptools plugin for git called gitlsfiles. >After the urge to push my first release out of the door had subsided, >I could not help but to realize that it was a really silly name that I >had chosen for this plugin. So I engaged the other setuptools plugin >maintainers for advice and we all agreed that it would be best for >everyone if our plugins were called setuptools_<rcs>. > >I'm about to push setuptools_git 0.3 out of the door but I want people >to stop using gitlsfiles. I understand, thanks to Barry Warsaw's >investigation, that PyPI has currently no support for automatic >redirection for deprecated packages. > >How should we proceed to indicate that the old package are deprecated? >Upload a newer PKG-INFO with a big deprecation warning and no files? >Any other suggestions?
Release a new "version" whose sole purpose is to let people know the package no longer exists, e.g.: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/ObjectRoles/ Now, in my case, I included files that actually wrap the replacement package, so dependencies still work. But for your use case, you could just omit the distribution files. _______________________________________________ Catalog-SIG mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/catalog-sig
