On Mon, Nov 14, 2022 at 6:03 PM Kevin Kofler via devel
<devel@lists.fedoraproject.org> wrote:
>
> So let me sum up:
>
> > Some Python building backends, eg. setuptools, explicitly allow
> > creating package with version `0.0.0` when the version used by a
> > project is not known. This was
> > [https://github.com/pypa/setuptools/issues/2329 discussed upstream]
> > with conclusion that it's an intended behavior.
>
> Upstream says that it is intended that packages are able to set their
> version to 0 or 0.0.0, but…
>
> > Based on discussion on python-devel mailing list there will be no way
> > to opt out from this change. There will be no possibility to package a
> > Python package with version `0`.
>
> … your proposed Change will fail those packages' build with no opt-out!? You
> cannot be serious!
>
> (Though actually, would %global __provides_exclude_from … together with a
> manual Provides: python3dist(…) = 0 not work?)
>
> A clear -1 to this Change as proposed.
>
> > We've never encountered a situation when packaging the version `0` was
> > the package maintainers intention.
>
> What if it is the *upstream* maintainer's intention? Are we now dictating
> versioning schemes on upstream projects, disallowing version numbers that
> upstream setuptools explicitly considers valid?
>

Unfortunately, I have to agree here. Nobody said we should be
dictating the versions for people. PEP-440 does not even make 0
version illegal, so this is unnecessarily punishing.



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真実はいつも一つ!/ Always, there's only one truth!
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