Nick Coghlan <ncogh...@gmail.com> added the comment: Donald made an interesting suggestion over on https://github.com/pypa/packaging-problems/issues/127#issuecomment-374401331, which was to have distutils stop overwriting the Author metadata with the Maintainer metadata when both are specified and instead emit a warning about an unknown keyword argument.
I'm not sure we'd want to change the behaviour of mapping Maintainer -> Author (since it's a nice way to retain credit in the code, while changing the metadata on PyPI to reflect the current metadata), but I *do* think it would be reasonable to have distutils emit a warning that metadata version 1.1 can't represent the maintainer information properly, and folks should upgrade to using setuptools instead. Éric, your thoughts? ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <https://bugs.python.org/issue33069> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
