[Catalog-sig] How to remove dead links from PyPI?

[Hanno Schlichting]

Hi.

On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 9:47 AM, Gerhard Häring <gh at ghaering.de> wrote:
> I cannot figure out how to modify old releases on PyPI. This page:
>
> http://pypi.python.org/simple/pysqlite/
>
> has lots of dead links for older releases of pysqlite (anything
> pointing to pysqlite.org or initd.org).
>
> I'd like to remove these links, so that easy_install and buildout
> won't take forever before giving up.
>
> Any idea how? Or do I need to contact the PyPI maintainers?

You should be able to go to
http://pypi.python.org/pypi?:action=pkg_edit&name=pysqlite

That page should list all releases. You can then "edit" each of the
releases and change the metadata of each release to remove the old
URL's.

If that doesn't work, I'm out of ideas :)

Hanno