[Distutils] URL Structure of Packages URLs

[Donald Stufft]

On Oct 12, 2013, at 5:42 PM, Barry Warsaw <barry at python.org> wrote:

> On Oct 12, 2013, at 08:50 PM, Floris Bruynooghe wrote:
> 
>> Sounds like this could be addressed with a lintian warning and a long
>> transition time (~2 years) so leaving proper redirects around would be
>> advisable.
> 
> Sure, but my point was that people will use the most easily discoverable
> pattern available, which currently is the download link from the package's
> PyPI page.  If we want to make some other link more commonly used, it should
> be more easily discoverable.
> 
> -Barry
> 
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Just to be clear, I don't fault folks for using the /packages/ urls. I was just trying
to get some sort of idea if anyone actually used that url structure or not. I also
don't plan on breaking anything for people who do.

That being said, do you know if the Debian case requires something to be served
at /packages/source/D/Django/ in order to locate a file at /packages/source/D/Django/Django-*.tar.gz?

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