[Distutils] How to deprecate a python package

[Alex Grönholm]

I think an ideal solution would be to add a feature to Warehouse that 
would "redirect" any downloads of a library to another. Though I'm not 
saying it would be simple.

05.04.2016, 22:59, Ionel Cristian Mărieș kirjoitti:
> What's wrong with a new release that just depends on replacement 
> (assuming there's identical API)? This might be of help: 
> https://pypi.python.org/pypi/pypi-alias
>
> If there are API changes or other breakages then maybe a release with 
> a wrapper that emits warnings would be better and generate less 
> surprise/anger.
>
>
> Thanks,
> -- IonelCristian Mărieș, http://blog.ionelmc.ro
>
> On Tue, Apr 5, 2016 at 9:46 PM, Thomas Güttler 
> <guettliml at thomas-guettler.de <mailto:guettliml at thomas-guettler.de>> 
> wrote:
>
>     I wasted some time because I used a deprecated python package.
>
>     I asked the maintainer to remove it, and he looked at the usage
>     statistics: I still gets
>     downloaded.
>
>     What is the official way to deprecate a python package?
>
>     Related discussion:
>
>     https://github.com/riklaunim/django-ckeditor/issues/60#issuecomment-205021579
>
>     Regards,
>       Thomas Güttler
>
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>     http://www.thomas-guettler.de/
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