On Thu, Jul 12, 2018 at 12:32 AM, Robin Becker <ro...@reportlab.com> wrote:
> On 11/07/2018 19:44, Thomas Kluyver wrote: > >> On Wed, Jul 11, 2018, at 7:32 PM, Chris Jerdonek wrote: >> >>> And yet you can see "License: ReportLab BSD Derived" in the left-hand >>> column under "Meta," so how did it get there? Did PyPI previously fall >>> back to including the "License" classifier value as is (even if >>> invalid) if no "license" field was present? Here's the project's >>> setup(), which doesn't seem to have changed since 2013: >>> >> You used to be able to edit a release's metadata manually in a web form; >> possibly the license was added that way. >> >> ....... > we certainly have not edited the metadata after upload. As Chris mentioned > the classifier was in the package for a long time. I think the previous > uploads were done via the old manual web page upload so perhaps that didn't > check. FYI, I found where the "fall back" logic from the license field to the Trove classifiers is located. It's here in Warehouse: https://github.com/pypa/warehouse/blob/79574e4c300c3786aebd8f43f3814bd2dc66ace5/warehouse/packaging/views.py#L100-L112 This logic was added a couple years ago. See the discussion for the PR here: https://github.com/pypa/warehouse/pull/1284 --Chris > My attempts to upload the latest reportlab-3.5.0.tar.gz failed initially > with an obscure message from twine about string buffer being required. I > didn't discover what the problem there was, but I imagine another field has > changed. I succeeded eventually after re-doing the sdist with a more modern > virtual environment. > -- > Robin Becker >
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