Steve Dower added the comment:
Distutils is now deprecated (see PEP 632) and all tagged issues are being
closed. From now until removal, only release blocking issues will be considered
for distutils.
If this issue does not relate to distutils, please remove the component and
reopen it. If
Antti Haapala added the comment:
I am the current maintainer of python-Levenshtein package on PyPI/Github, but I
wrote about 0 % of the functionality; almost everything excepting bug fixes and
Python 3 compatibility was written by the original author David Necas and
possibly contributors; now
Éric Araujo added the comment:
Again, if PyPI can display both pieces of information, then it will be okay to
send both. The change should not break third-party indexes like devpi-server.
Is there a PyPI ticket for this?
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Donald Stufft added the comment:
PyPI should already handle it fine, and Warehouse certainly does.
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http://bugs.python.org/issue16108
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Changes by Stefan Krah stefan-use...@bytereef.org:
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Éric Araujo added the comment:
If PyPI is changed to display both author and maintainer info, I’m okay with
changing distutils to send both.
(Sourceforge link is dead :()
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versions: +Python 2.7, Python 3.3, Python 3.4
Chris Jerdonek added the comment:
Previous issues like this include issue 962772 (from 5/2004) and issue 3686
(from 8/2008). Copying the nosy lists from those issues.
This issue affects me also because I maintain a project that I did not author.
However, PyPI lists me as the author because
Chris Jerdonek added the comment:
I also created issue 16403 to update the distutils docs to say that distutils
lists the maintainer as the author in PKG-INFO when maintainer is provided.
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Stefan Krah added the comment:
Would that result in displaying both author and maintainer info on the PyPI
page? For what cases is it useful?
It gives due credit to the original author if another person maintains
the package. I think it's a matter of common courtesy not to suppress
author
Chris Jerdonek added the comment:
Whether or not we start sending both pieces of data, can PyPI perhaps be
updated to display Contact instead of Author when Metadata-Version 1.1 is
used?
I filed an issue on PyPI's issue tracker for this suggestion here:
Éric Araujo added the comment:
Would that result in displaying both author and maintainer info on the PyPI
page? For what cases is it useful?
Questions about author/maintainer come up from time to time. The way I
understand it, the goal of these fields is to give contact information to the
New submission from Richard Jones:
The attached patch includes the maintainer information in the data sent to PyPI
in a register or upload submission.
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assignee: eric.araujo
components: Distutils2
files: maintainer.patch
keywords: patch
messages: 171774
nosy: alexis, eric.araujo,
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