[Catalog-sig] [Proposal] Registered packages must provide the source code distribution on PyPI
M.-A. Lemburg
mal at egenix.com
Thu Jun 17 15:16:15 CEST 2010
Benji York wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 7:40 AM, M.-A. Lemburg <mal at egenix.com> wrote:
>> http://pypi.python.org/simple/zc.buildout/
>>
>> BTW: what are all those bug links doing on the zc.buildout index page ?
>
> PyPI scrapes all the links from the long description; for many projects
> that includes a change log with links to fixed bugs.
Isn't that dangerous ?
AFAIK, setuptools would start opening all those URLs and might
find download files which are not necessarily under full control of
the author, e.g. anyone could add a comment to a bug report or
wiki page with a link to an egg file on some rogue server.
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